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Structure–activity relationship (SAR) is the key problem of nanoscience, thus to fabricate novel and well-defined nanostructure will provide a new insight on catalyst preparation method. Highly active and low cost electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are of great importance for future renewable energy conversion and storage. Herein, NiFe-based layered double hydroxides with laminar structure (NFLS) were successfully fabricated via a one-step hydrothermal approach by using sodium dodecyl sulfate as surfactant. The as-fabricated NFLS showed a well-defined periodic layered-stacking geometry with a scale down to 1-nm. Benefitting from the unique structure, NFLS exhibited an excellent catalytic activity towards OER with current densities of 10 mA·cm−2 at overpotential of 197 mV. The synergistic effect of Ni and Fe plays a key role in electrode reactions. The present work provides a new insight to improve the OER performance by rational design of electrocatalysts with unique structures.

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Received: 05 December 2018
Revised: 31 December 2018
Accepted: 01 January 2019
Published: 29 May 2019
Issue date: June 2019

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21431003 and 21521091) and the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFA0202801).

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