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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Volume 2, Issue 9, Pages 1725-1731Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8qm00292d
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21573068]
- National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51725201]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [222201718002]
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The development of efficient catalytic electrodes towards the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is at the heart of renewable-energy technologies. Despite the tremendous efforts towards engineering electrode schemes for increasing exposed surface areas and active sites, improving intrinsic catalytic activity still remains a great challenge. Here, we develop a surface-polyaniline (PANI) functionalized nickel selenide (NiSe-PANI) electrode with great performance enhancement for both the HER and OER. The decorated PANI layer subtly modulates the surface electronic structures of NiSe, with a surface-optimized selenium-enriched configuration for the HER and enhanced generation of Ni-III/IV active species when oxidized for the OER. When used as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting, the NiSe-PANI electrode displays excellent performance, with a current density of approximate to 10 mA cm(-2) at an applied voltage of 1.53 V during a long-term electrolysis test, and outperforms the Pt and IrO2 combination as the benchmark and most of the earth-abundant material-based bifunctional catalysts. Similar PANI-functionalization on other bifunctional nickel chalcogenide electrodes also exhibits obviously enhanced performance for overall water splitting, demonstrating the wider applicability of intrinsic activity enhancement via a surface electronic modulation strategy.
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