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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 743, Issue -, Pages 682-690Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.01.356
Keywords
Co-W/CeO2; Composite coating; Electrodeposition; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Electrocatalytic performance
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51204115]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20141193, BK20151221]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2013M541719]
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Co-W/CeO2 composite coatings were electrodeposited under galvanostatic conditions from a citrate plating bath containing suspended micro-CeO2 particles. The composition, structure and morphology of the composite coatings were evaluated and compared when different concentrations of micro-CeO2 particles are added. The as-prepared Co-W coating without CeO2 has an amorphous structure. However, embedding CeO2 into the Co-W matrix considerably improved the crystallinity of the Co-W alloy. The surface morphology study revealed that Co-W/CeO2 composite coatings were more compact with fewer microcracks and defects than the Co-W coating. The electrocatalytic performance of these composite coatings for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) was also investigated by liner sweep voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy techniques in alkaline medium. Co-W/CeO2 composite coatings gained remarkable improvement in HER activity which may be attributed to a synergistic eletrocatalytic effect between CeO2 particles and Co-W matrix. The apparent exchange current density value (j(0)) of the Co-W/CeO2 composite coating was 15.6 times higher than that of the Co-W coating when the concentration of micro-CeO2 particles in the plating bath is 7 gL(-1) (denoted as M3), and the j(0)/R-f ratio (intrinsic catalytic activity) was 3.72 x 10(-5) Acm(-2). Furthermore, M3 coating also showed good stability and its apparent activation energy (E-a) of HER was calculated to be 24.59 kJmol(-1), which was significantly lower than that of the Co-W coating. (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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