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CuxO nanorod arrays shelled with CoNi layered double hydroxide nanosheets for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction under alkaline conditions

Journal

JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 630, Issue -, Pages 57-65

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.032

Keywords

OER; Electrocatalysts; CoNi-LDH; CuxO nanorod arrays; Electrodeposition

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In this study, a unique nanocomposite of CuxO@CoNi-LDH with a hierarchical nanostructure was synthesized by a fast electrodeposition method. The resulting electrocatalyst showed high catalytic performance and long-term stability in the oxygen evolution reaction.
Exploration of highly efficient and cost-effective oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts is of crucial importance for the development of water splitting. In recent years, Cu-based materials have been widely concerned in OER due to their non-toxicity, rich reserves and highest reversibility. Meanwhile, CuxO nanorods is easy to be prepared in industry. Herein, we report a fast preparation method to con-struct an integrated CuxO@CoNi-LDH electrocatalyst with a unique 1D nanowire-2D nanosheet hierarchi-cal core-shell structure by electrodepositing CoNi-LDH nanosheet arrays directly onto CuxO nanorods (CuxO were in situ-created on the Cu foam) at a large deposition voltage of-3.0 V vs SCE. The unique heterogeneous core-shell nanostructure, large deposition amount of CoNi-LDH and the synergistic effects between CuxO core and CoNi-LDH shell can provide abundant active sites, rich open-channels and reduced charge transfer resistance (Rct) for effective oxygen release and facile electron transport. Consequently, the optimized CuxO@CoNi-LDH/CF exhibits a low overpotential of 207 mV in 1 M KOH solution at the current density of 10 mV cm-2 and a small Tafel slope of 50.1 mV dec-1. After 60 h of long-term stability test, the catalytic performance is only slightly weakened. This work demonstrates a new approach to design the high-performance LDH and Cu-related OER catalysts by constructing a unique hierarchical core-shell nanostructure.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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