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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 538, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147977
关键词
Nickel foam; Corrosion; Electrocatalytic; Electrocatalyst; Hydrothemal; Solvothermal
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51672229]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR, China [CityU 11211317, T42-103/16-N]
- Science Technology and Innovation Committee of Shenzhen Municipality [JCYJ20170818095520778]
- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong
The study analyzed the characteristics of nickel foams as substrates for electrocatalysts, revealing that nickel substrates corrode during catalyst synthesis and affect electrocatalytic performance.
Nickle foams (NFs) have been widely used as substrates to support various electrocatalysts due to their extended framework structures, low-cost and high-conductivity. At the same time, as a kind of relatively active metals, nickel substrates are also prone to get corroded or chemically etched during hydro-/solvothermal synthesis of catalyst materials. However, as far as we know, when using NFs as the scaffold to support Ni-free electrocatalysts, most of the published works overlook or even ignore the effect of nickel corrosion on the activities of electrocatalysts directly fabricated on NFs. By using a simple comparison method, we systematically studied such effects from the aspects of material-synthesis temperature, precursors and aqueous solution involved. Our results indicate that the nickel substrates do indeed corrode with ions out-diffused into the reaction solution and incorporated into the fabricated electrocatalysts, which in turn affect their electrocatalytic performances. Special cautions and considerations should be made accordingly when employing nickel foams as substrates for electrocatalysts.
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