Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 265, Issue -, Pages 19-31Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.01.150
Keywords
Water splitting; NiCo-Based catalyst; Mushroom-like; Oxygen evolution; Hydrogen evolution
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB720302]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFF0102503]
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Electrochemical water splitting into hydrogen energy offers a promising pathway for renewable and clean energy conversion and storage, but high overpotentials are needed to drive the process owing to the sluggish kinetics of the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, three-dimensional (3D) mushroom-like NiCo/NiCo2S4@NiCo arrays grown directly on Ni foam (NF) have been constructed via hydrothermal and electrodeposition methods. Owing to the unique mushroom-like structure and the beneficial effect of the composite catalyst, the NiCo/NiCo2S4@NiCo/NF electrode exhibits excellent activity and stability for both OER and HER. When serving as an anode electrocatalyst, the composite catalyst only requires a overpotential of 294 mV to achieve a high current density of 100 mA/cm(2) for the OER in 1M KOH. Moreover, in chronopotentiometric and chronoamperometric measurements, the NiCo/NiCo2S4@NiCo/NF electrode displays distinguished electrochemical and structural stability for at least 100,000 s. Similarly, the NiCo/NiCo2S4@NiCo/NF catalyst delivers a hydrogen production current density of 10 mA/cm(2) at an overpotential of 132 mV and shows no obvious attenuation of performance after stability testing for 100,000 s in an extreme alkaline environment. Accordingly, the remarkable and stable bifunctional abilities enable the application of the NiCo/NiCo2S4@NiCo/NF catalyst in two-electrode water-alkali electrolyzers with a low cell voltage of 1.55 V to deliver a current density of 10 mA/cm(2) and excellent stability for over 27 h. (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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