期刊
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
卷 337, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.135738
关键词
Water splitting; Bifunctional electrocatalyst; IrCox nanoring; Homointerfaces
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21476169, 21203137]
To develop robust and highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting in acidic media is still a great challenge for proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer. Herein, a selfassembled IrCox nanorings (NRs) with bracelet-like architecture is fabricated as a bifunctional high-efficient overall water splitting electrocatalyst by a facile, controllable and surfactant-free strategy. The unique nanoring architecture enriches in abundant homointerface and strong synergistic electronic interaction between Ir and Co. The optimized IrCox. 14 NRs exhibits remarkable electrocatalytic performance with a low overpotential of 16 mV for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and 278 mV for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at 10 mA cm(-2) in 0.1 M HClO4 , respectively, significantly outperforming the commercial Pt/C, Ir/C and reported Ir-based catalysts. As both anode and cathode, a cell voltage of only 1.53 V to reach 10 mA cm(-2) is obtained for overall water splitting and no obvious activity loses after a long-term electrolysis for 14 h. Combined with a PV cell, this catalyst also shows excellent water splitting performance with a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 12.8%. This work provides further insights on designing promising and efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for clean energy electrochemical conversion in the future. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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