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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 51, Issue 19, Pages 7561-7570Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2dt00828a
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- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1808085ME143]
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing (Wuhan University of Technology) [2021-KF-20]
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This study successfully synthesized carbon nanotubes with a hollow polyhedral structure. The unique structure provides stability and facilitates mass and charge transfer. The resulting CoP/CNTHPs exhibited excellent bifunctional catalytic activity in hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions and electrocatalytic water splitting, along with remarkable stability.
In order to lower energy consumption it is critical to develop highly efficient and stable non-precious metal bifunctional catalysts. In this study, we found that rational design of novel nanostructures is able to increase the number of active sites, conductivity and accelerate electron transfer, thus promoting enhanced performance of the catalyst. We successfully synthesized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) containing a hollow polyhedral (CNTHPs) structure through annealing, etching and phosphating. The unique hollow shape not only provides a stable structure but also facilitates mass and charge transfer. Thus, CoP/CNTHPs can catalyze the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions effectively with overpotentials of 147 and 238 mV at 10 mA cm(-2). Simultaneously, CoP/CNTHPs only needs a voltage of 1.54 V to attain a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) in the electrocatalytic water splitting process, demonstrating its bifunctional activity. Furthermore, the electrolytic catalytic performance does not weaken significantly after 12 hours of electrolysis, demonstrating excellent stability. Overall, this research offers useful insights into rational design of high-performance non-noble metal catalysts.
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