Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 27, Issue 16, Pages 5702-5711Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02177
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Funding
- NSF [DMR-1106184]
- Research Corporation SciaLog Award
- UW-Madison H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
- China Scholarship Council
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51372212]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1106184] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Porous materials are of particular interest due to their high surface area and rich edge sites, which are favorable for applications such as catalysis. Although there are well-established strategies for synthesizing porous metal oxides (e.g., by annealing the corresponding metal hydroxides), facile and scalable routes to porous metal hydroxides and metal chalcogenides are lacking. Here, we report a simple and general strategy to synthesize porous nanosheets of metal hydroxides by selectively etching layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoplate precursors that contain amphoteric metal and to further convert them into porous metal chalcogenides by a solution method. Using NiGa LDH as an example, we show that the thin nanoplates with high surface accessibility facilitate the topotactic conversion of NiGa LDH to beta-Ni(OH), and further to NiSe, with porous texture while preserving the sheet-like morphology. The converted beta-Ni(OH), and NiSe2 are highly active for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), respectively, which demonstrates the applications of such high surface area porous nanostructures with rich edge sites. Particularly, the porous NiSe2 nanosheets exhibited excellent catalytic activity toward HER with low onset overpotential, small Tafel slope, and good stability under both acidic and alkaline conditions. Overall electrochemical water splitting experiments using these porous beta-Ni(OH)(2) and NiSe, nanosheets were further demonstrated. Our work presents a new strategy to prepare porous nanomaterials and to further enhance their catalytic and other applications.
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