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SMALL
Volume 13, Issue 33, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201701025
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 21528301, 51402111]
- Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program [2014ZT05N200]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (SCUT) [2153860]
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Nitrogen and sulfur-codoped graphene composites with Co9S8 (NS/rGO-Co) are synthesized by facile thermal annealing of graphene oxides with cobalt nitrate and thiourea in an ammonium atmosphere. Significantly, in 0.1 m KOH aqueous solution the best sample exhibits an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity that is superior to that of benchmark RuO2 catalysts, an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity that is comparable to that of commercial Pt/C, and an overpotential of only -0.193 V to reach 10 mA cm(-2) for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). With this single catalyst for oxygen reversible electrocatalysis, a potential difference of only 0.700 V is observed in 0.1 m KOH solution between the half-wave potential in ORR and the potential to reach 10 mA cm(-2) in OER; in addition, an overpotential of only 450 mV is needed to reach 10 mA cm(-2) for full water splitting in the same electrolyte. The present trifunctional catalytic activities are markedly better than leading results reported in recent literature, where the remarkable trifunctional activity is attributed to the synergetic effects between N,S-codoped rGO, and Co9S8 nanoparticles. These results highlight the significance of deliberate structural engineering in the preparation of multifunctional electrocatalysts for versatile electrochemical reactions.
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