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GREEN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
卷 7, 期 2, 页码 236-245出版社
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gee.2020.09.002
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Cu3P nanoarrays; Template-directed method; Hierarchical structure; CuO active sites; Water splitting
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- Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [18CX06065A, 20CX06022A]
- Postdoctoral Research Program of Qingdao, China [ZX20190140]
This paper reports the fabrication of hierarchical copper phosphide nanoarrays as electrocatalysts for overall water splitting. The Cu3P/NF electrode exhibits good catalytic activity and stability for both oxygen evolution reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction, with low overpotential.
Exploring the efficient bifunctional catalysts and binder-free electrode materials for both oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is receiving continuous interest. Herein, we report the fabrication of hierarchical copper phosphide nanoarrays (Cu3P) on three-dimensional (3D) nickel foam (NF) through a template-directed synthetic strategy as electrocatalysts for overall water splitting. Specifically, the Cu3P/NF electrode demonstrates a remarkably low overpotential of similar to 331 mV to approach the current density of 50 mA cm-2 in the OER, and an overpotential of similar to 115 mV to achieve -10 mA cm(-2) current density in the HER. Meanwhile the Cu3P/NF catalyst could hold a great stability for both reactions in alkaline condition, reflected in 37 h for OER and 24 h for HER of consistent galvanostatic electrolysis. As revealed by TEM, STEM and XPS characterizations, the high catalytic OER activity can be ascribed to the 3D open structure of Cu3P/NF and the abundant CuO active sites in hierarchical CuO/Cu3P/NF structure after in-situ activation. Furthermore, the overall water splitting is con-ducted in a two-electrode cell, which requires only a cell voltage of 1.63 V to approach 10 mA cm(-2) with a good stability of 20 h. This protocol of Cu3P/NF electrode affords a general strategy to construct hierarchically structured metal phosphides for clean energy-related application. (C) 2020 Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
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