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NANOSCALE
Volume 9, Issue 17, Pages 5583-5588Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nr01027c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21375123, 21675151]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2013YQ170585, 2016YFA0203201]
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Developing efficient and earth-abundant oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts is of great importance in renewable energy research. Herein, we report nitrogen-doped carbon encapsulating gamma-MoC/Ni heterostructures (gamma-MoC/Ni@NC) for the first time as efficient OER electrocatalysts. The composites can be controlled by the addition of a Mo source to form a nanoparticle-assembled hierarchically porous nanostructure, which can enlarge the specific surface area, thus exposing more active sites. Moreover, we demonstrate that the formation gamma-MoC@Ni heterostructures and the resulting synergistic effect between gamma-MoC and Ni can facilitate the reaction kinetics, leading to significantly improved OER activity with an onset overpotential of merely 240 mV, and a low overpotential of 310 mV to afford a current density of 10 mA cm(-2). This work provides a new insight into the development of highly active and inexpensive OER electrocatalysts.
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