Journal
ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 1-7Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03177
Keywords
oxygen vacancy; porous nanosheet; 3D configuration; urea oxidation; nickel molybdenum oxide
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB932302]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [U1432133, 1162163, U1632154]
- National Program for support of Top-notch Yong Professionals
- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1608085QA08]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2060190080]
- Major/Innovative Program of Development Foundation of Hefei Center for Physical Science and Technology
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The direct urea fuel cell (DUFC), as an efficient technology for generating power from urea, shows great potential for energy-sustainable development but is greatly hindered by the slow kinetics of the urea oxidation reaction (UOR). Herein, we highlighted a defect engineering strategy to design oxygen vacancy-rich NiMoO4 nanosheets as a promising platform to study the relationship between O vacancies and UOR activity. Experimental/theoretical results confirm that the rich O vacancies confined in NiMoO4 nanosheets successfully bring synergetic effects of higher exposed active sites, faster electron transport, and lower adsorption energy of urea molecules, giving rise to largely improved UOR activity. As expected, the r-NiMoO4/NF 3D electrode exhibits a higher current density of 249.5 mA cm(-2), which is about 1.9 and 5.0 times larger than those of p-NiMoO4/NF and Ni-Mo precursor/NF at a potential of 0.6 V. Our finding will be a promising pathway to develop non-noble materials as highly efficient UOR catalysts.
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