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Construction of CoNiFe Trimetallic Carbonate Hydroxide Hierarchical Hollow Microflowers with Oxygen Vacancies for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation

Journal

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 32, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202200726

Keywords

electrocatalysts; hollow microflowers; metal carbonate hydroxides; oxygen evolution reaction; oxygen vacancies

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21705106, 22177067]
  2. Sino-German Mobility Programme [M-0209]
  3. Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning [TP2016023]
  4. Shanghai Natural Science Foundation [18ZR1415400]
  5. Shanghai Rising-Star Program [20QA1403400]
  6. Shanghai Sailing Program [20YF1413000]
  7. Key Basic Research Program of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [20JC1415300]

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A sequential self-templating method was used to synthesize CoNiFe trimetallic carbonate hydroxide hierarchical hollow microflowers with oxygen vacancies. These hollow microflowers exhibited high active-site exposure density and increased electrical conductivity due to their hollow structure, Fe substitution, and V-O. The optimized trimetallic carbonate hydroxide microflowers showed excellent performance in the oxygen evolution reaction with low overpotential and Tafel slope. Theoretical calculations revealed that Fe substitution and V-O could regulate the electronic states and achieve near-ideal adsorption/desorption capacity for oxygenated intermediates. The successful synthesis of other substituted carbonate hydroxides provides a general protocol to construct transition multimetallic electrocatalysts with hollow structures for highly efficient energy conversion reactions.
It is of great challenge to design transition multimetallic carbonate hydroxides with delicate hollow features and defects for efficient electrolytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Here, a sequential self-templating method to synthesize CoNiFe trimetallic carbonate hydroxide hierarchical hollow microflowers (CN-xFe HMs) with oxygen vacancies (V-O) is reported. The synergistic merits of hollow structure, Fe substitution, and V-O endow the CN-xFe HMs with high active-site exposure density and increased electrical conductivity. Specially, the optimized CN-xFe HMs validate the excellent OER performance with an overpotential of 258 mV to drive 10 mA cm(-2) and a Tafel slope of 48.7 mV dec(-1). Theoretical calculations reveal that Fe substitution and V-O can synergistically regulate the electronic states to achieve near-ideal adsorption/desorption capacity for oxygenated intermediates. Moreover, the successful synthesis of other six metals substituted CoNiM (M = Cu, Zn, Cr, Mo, Er and La) carbonate hydroxides provides a universal protocol to construct transition multimetallic electrocatalysts with hollow structures for gaining highly efficient energy conversion reactions.

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