Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 9, Issue 32, Pages 26840-26847Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b06727
Keywords
laser-induced graphene; oxygen evolution reaction; hydrogen evolution reaction; OER; HER
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-14-1-0111]
- NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment [ERC-1449500]
- Chinese Scholarship Council
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Electrically splitting water to H-2 and O-2 is a preferred method for energy storage as long as no CO2 is emitted during the supplied electrical input. Here we report a laser-induced graphene (LIG) process to fabricate efficient catalytic electrodes on opposing faces of a plastic sheet, for the generation of both H-2 and O-2. The high porosity and electrical conductivity of LIG facilitates the efficient contact and charge transfer with the requisite electrolyte. The LIG-based electrodes exhibit high performance for hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction with excellent long-term stability. The overpotential reaches 100 rnA/cm(2) for HER, and OER is as low as 214 and 380 mV with relatively low Tafel slopes of 54 and 49 mV/dec, respectively. By serial connecting of the electrodes with a power source in an O-ring setup, H-2 and O-2 are simultaneously generated on either side of the plastic sheet at a current density of 10 mA/cm(2) at 1.66 V and can thereby be selectively captured. The demonstration provides a promising route to simple, efficient, and complete water splitting.
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