Journal
SMALL
Volume 13, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201700394
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21575137, 21375076]
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There is an urgent demand to develop earth-abundant electrocatalysts for efficient and durable water oxidation under mild conditions. A nickel-substituted cobalt-borate nanowire array is developed on carbon cloth (Ni-Co-Bi/CC) via oxidative polarization of NiCo2S4 nanoarray in potassium borate (K-Bi). As a bimetallic electrocatalyst for water oxidation, such Ni-Co-Bi/CC is superior in catalytic activity and durability in 0.1 M K-Bi (pH: 9.2), with a turnover frequency of 0.33 mol O-2 s(-1) at the overpotential of 500 mV and nearly 100% Faradaic efficiency. To drive a geometrical catalytic current density of 10 mA cm(-2), it only needs overpotential of 388 mV, 34 mV less than that for Co-Bi/CC, outperforming reported non-noble-metal catalysts operating under benign conditions. Notably, its activity is maintained over 80 000 s. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the O* to OOH* conversion is the rate-determining step and Ni substitution decreases the free energy on Co-Bi from 2.092 to 1.986 eV.
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