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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 433, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.134497
Keywords
Nickel (oxy)hydroxide; Core-shell structure; Electronic regulation; Energy-saving hydrogen generation; Overall urea electrolysis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21875247, 21072221, 21172252]
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In this study, a novel defect-rich electrocatalyst was fabricated using a combination of hydrothermal, annealing, and electrodeposition methods. The electrocatalyst exhibited high activity and stability in water-to-hydrogen conversion and urea electrolysis. This research provides a promising pathway for the design of efficient electrocatalysts in energy-saving water-to-hydrogen conversion.
Constructing low-cost, high-efficient, and stable electrocatalysts is crucial for large-scale and sustainable water-to-hydrogen conversion. Herein, the combination approaches of hydrothermal, annealing and electrodeposition have been used to fabricate a novel defect-rich electrocatalyst, Ni(OH)(2)/NiO-C/WO3 HAs, that is composed of WO3 core with Ni(OH)(2)/NiO shell hierarchical arrays (HAs), which exhibits relatively large specific surface area and thus exposing abundant defect sites. Additionally, both experimental and computational results reveal that the regulation of the electronic structure of W6+ contributes to inducing Ni centers to reform and transform into active species. The unique Ni(OH)(2)/NiO-C/WO3 HAs possess extraordinary activities with an ultralow over-potential of 53 mV for cathodic hydrogen evolution (HER), and the low potential of 1.340 V for anodic urea oxidation (UOR) at 10 mA cm(-2). When employing Ni(OH)(2)/NiO-C/WO3 HAs as symmetric electrolyzer in a hybrid water electrolysis system, the cell voltage reduces to 1.370 V at 10 mA cm(-2). Moreover, the electrolytic cell remains stable over 60 h at 20 mA cm(-2), outperforming the commercial counterpart of Pt/C||IrO2. This study provides a promising pathway to design high-efficient electrocatalysts for energy-saving water-to-hydrogen conversion via urea electrolysis.
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