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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 169, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac6b5b
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India [CRG/2018/002254]
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In this study, a hierarchical Ni-Mo bimetallic surface alloy @ microporous 3D Ni support was fabricated, which exhibited hydrogen evolution performance comparable to Pt benchmark. The optimized electrocatalyst showed low overpotentials in both acidic and alkaline media, as well as low Tafel slopes. The density functional theory based approach suggested that the free-energy of hydrogen adsorption-desorption was lower for the developed electrocatalyst.
Surface alloys using transition metal elements have been regarded as one of the intelligent choices in electrocatalytic hydrogen generation. Herein, hierarchical Ni-Mo bimetallic surface alloy @ microporous 3D Ni support is fabricated by controlled electrodeposition followed by annealing to exhibit hydrogen evolution performance comparable to Pt benchmark, both in the acidic and alkaline media. Precisely controlled formation of Mo-layer on Ni-foam during the electrodeposition through underpotential causes the formation of surface alloy, Ni-Mo. The optimized electrocatalyst shows low overpotentials of 58 mV and 50 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) in 0.5 M H2SO4 and 1 M NaOH solutions, respectively. Moreover, the developed electrocatalyst also shows low Tafel slopes of 58.8 mV dec(-1) and 86.8 mV dec(-1) in acidic and alkaline media, respectively. The density functional theory based approach suggests that the free-energy of hydrogen adsorption-desorption is lower for a lesser number of Mo layers deposited on the Ni-matrix to keep it very close to that of Pt.
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