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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 41, Issue 40, Pages 18044-18049Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.08.058
Keywords
Hydrogen evolution reaction; Electrochemistry; Electrospinning; Cu nanoparticles; Carbon nanofibers
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51573166]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ16E020005]
- Program for Innovative Research Team of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
- 521 Talent Project of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
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In this study, a facile and effective approach was demonstrated for designing and preparing small Cu nanoparticles (NPs) densely and uniformly distributed on carbon nano fibers (CNFs). Self-supported hybrid CuNPs/CNFs with three-dimensional (3D) architectures were prepared via electrospinning and thermal reduction processes. The hybrid CuNPs/CNFs were directly used as electrodes for an electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and they exhibited excellent activity, with a low onset potential of only 61 mV, an overpotential of 200 mV at 10 mA cm (-2), a small Tafel slope (152 mV dec(-1)) and a long-term stability in acidic electrolyte. The 3D self-supported architecture exhibited a high conductivity, a large specific surface area and a high porosity, all of which are beneficial for the access of electrolyte for the CuNPs and the release of the formed H-2, thereby reducing the overpotentials and accelerating the electrode kinetics. This work demonstrates that CuNPs/CNFs are promising candidates for the substitution of noble metal Pt-based materials in producing the HER from water. (C) 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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