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Nano Research 2017, 10(9): 3103-3112 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1527-1
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Au/Ni12P5 core/shell single-crystal nanoparticles as oxygen evolution reaction catalyst

Show Author's Information Yingying Xu§,1,  Sibin Duan§,1,  Haoyi Li2,  Ming Yang3,  Shijie Wang3,  Xun Wang2,  Rongming Wang1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface ScienceSchool of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing100083China
Department of ChemistryTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
Institute of Materials Research and EngineeringA*STAR, 2 Fusionopolis WaySingapore138634Singapore

§ Yingying Xu and Sibin Duan contributed equally to this work.

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oxygen evolution reaction, nickel phosphide, core/shell nanoparticles, interfacial coupling
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Xu Y, Duan S, Li H, et al. Au/Ni12P5 core/shell single-crystal nanoparticles as oxygen evolution reaction catalyst. Nano Research, 2017, 10(9): 3103-3112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1527-1
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We have demonstrated the improved performance of oxygen evolution reactions (OER) using Au/nickel phosphide (Ni12P5) core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) under basic conditions. NPs with a Ni12P5 shell and a Au core, both of which have well-defined crystal structures, have been prepared using solution-based synthetic routes. Compared with pure Ni12P5 NPs and Au-Ni12P5 oligomer-like NPs, the core/shell crystalline structure with Au shows an improved OER activity. It affords a current density of 10 mA/cm2 at a small overpotential of 0.34 V, in 1 M KOH aqueous solution at room temperature. This enhanced OER activity may relate to the strong structural and effective electronic coupling between the single-crystal core and the shell.


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Au/Ni12P5 core/shell single-crystal nanoparticles as oxygen evolution reaction catalyst

Show Author's information Yingying Xu§,1, Sibin Duan§,1, Haoyi Li2, Ming Yang3, Shijie Wang3, Xun Wang2, Rongming Wang1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface ScienceSchool of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing100083China
Department of ChemistryTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
Institute of Materials Research and EngineeringA*STAR, 2 Fusionopolis WaySingapore138634Singapore

§ Yingying Xu and Sibin Duan contributed equally to this work.

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We have demonstrated the improved performance of oxygen evolution reactions (OER) using Au/nickel phosphide (Ni12P5) core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) under basic conditions. NPs with a Ni12P5 shell and a Au core, both of which have well-defined crystal structures, have been prepared using solution-based synthetic routes. Compared with pure Ni12P5 NPs and Au-Ni12P5 oligomer-like NPs, the core/shell crystalline structure with Au shows an improved OER activity. It affords a current density of 10 mA/cm2 at a small overpotential of 0.34 V, in 1 M KOH aqueous solution at room temperature. This enhanced OER activity may relate to the strong structural and effective electronic coupling between the single-crystal core and the shell.

Keywords: oxygen evolution reaction, nickel phosphide, core/shell nanoparticles, interfacial coupling

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Received: 25 November 2016
Revised: 10 February 2017
Accepted: 11 February 2017
Published: 10 April 2017
Issue date: September 2017

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11674023, 51371015, 51331002, and 51501004), the Beijing Municipality Natural Science Foundation (No. 2142018), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. FRF-BR-15-023A). We would like to thank Prof. Feng Yuanping at Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research of NUS for discussions on computing results. We also thank the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore for providing the computing resource.

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