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Nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogel-supported NiPt-CeOx nanocomposites and their superior catalysis for hydrogen generation from hydrazine at room temperature

Show Author's Information Xiaoqiong Du1,  Chao Liu1,  Cheng Du1,  Ping Cai1,  Gongzhen Cheng1,  Wei Luo1,2( )
College of Chemistry and Molecular SciencesWuhan UniversityWuhan430072China
Key laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education)Nankai UniversityTianjin300071China
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hydrogen storage, hydrazine, nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogels, NiPt-CeOx
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The safe and efficient storage and release of hydrogen is one of the key technological challenges for the fuel cell-based hydrogen economy. Hydrazine monohydrate has attracted considerable attention as a safe and convent chemical hydrogen-storage material. Herein, we report the facile synthesis of NiPt-CeOx nanocomposites supported by three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogels (NGHs) via a simple one-step co-reduction synthesis method. These catalysts were composition-dependent for hydrogen generation from an alkaline solution of hydrazine. (Ni5Pt5)1-(CeOx)0.3/NGH exhibited the highest catalytic activity, with 100% hydrogen selectivity and turnover frequencies of 408 h–1 at 298 K and 3, 064 h–1 at 323 K. These superior catalytic performances are attributed to the electronic structure of the NiPt centers, which was modified by the electron interaction between NiPt and CeOx and the strong metal–support interaction between NiPt-CeOx and the NGH.


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Nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogel-supported NiPt-CeOx nanocomposites and their superior catalysis for hydrogen generation from hydrazine at room temperature

Show Author's information Xiaoqiong Du1, Chao Liu1, Cheng Du1, Ping Cai1, Gongzhen Cheng1, Wei Luo1,2( )
College of Chemistry and Molecular SciencesWuhan UniversityWuhan430072China
Key laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education)Nankai UniversityTianjin300071China

Abstract

The safe and efficient storage and release of hydrogen is one of the key technological challenges for the fuel cell-based hydrogen economy. Hydrazine monohydrate has attracted considerable attention as a safe and convent chemical hydrogen-storage material. Herein, we report the facile synthesis of NiPt-CeOx nanocomposites supported by three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogels (NGHs) via a simple one-step co-reduction synthesis method. These catalysts were composition-dependent for hydrogen generation from an alkaline solution of hydrazine. (Ni5Pt5)1-(CeOx)0.3/NGH exhibited the highest catalytic activity, with 100% hydrogen selectivity and turnover frequencies of 408 h–1 at 298 K and 3, 064 h–1 at 323 K. These superior catalytic performances are attributed to the electronic structure of the NiPt centers, which was modified by the electron interaction between NiPt and CeOx and the strong metal–support interaction between NiPt-CeOx and the NGH.

Keywords: hydrogen storage, hydrazine, nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogels, NiPt-CeOx

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Received: 08 December 2016
Revised: 18 January 2017
Accepted: 20 January 2017
Published: 06 May 2017
Issue date: August 2017

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21571145), the Creative Research Groups of Hubei Province (No. 2014CFA007), and Large-scale Instrument and Equipment Sharing Foundation of Wuhan University.

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