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Defective Ni3S2 nanowires as highly active electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidative upgrading

Show Author's Information Yufeng Zhang1,  Wei Zhu1( ),  Jinjie Fang1,  Zhiyuan Xu1,  Yanrong Xue1,  Di Liu1,  Rui Sui1,  Qingqing Lv1,  Xuerui Liu1,  Yongsheng Wang1,  Wei Chen2( ),  Zhongbin Zhuang1,3( )
State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Environmental Catalysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Electrochemical upgrading of biomass ethanol to value-added chemicals is promising for sustainable society. Here, we synthesize defective Ni3S2 nanowires (NWs), which show high activity towards electrochemical oxidation of ethanol to acetate. The Ni3S2 NWs are formed by the oriented attachment mechanism, and rich defects are introduced during the growth. A low onset potential of 1.31 V and high mass activity of 8,716 mA·mgNi−1 at 1.5 V are achieved using the synthesized Ni3S2 NWs toward the ethanol electro-oxidation, which are better than the Ni(OH)2 NWs and the Ni3S2 nanoparticles (NPs). And the selectivity for the acetate generation is ca. 99%. The high activity of Ni3S2 NWs is attributed to the easier oxidation of Ni(II) to the catalytically active Ni(III) species with the promotion from S component and rich defects. These results demonstrate that the defective NWs can be synthesized by the oriented attachment method and the defective Ni3S2 NWs structure as the efficient non-noble metal electrocatalysts for oxidative upgrading of ethanol.


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Defective Ni3S2 nanowires as highly active electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidative upgrading

Show Author's information Yufeng Zhang1, Wei Zhu1( ), Jinjie Fang1, Zhiyuan Xu1, Yanrong Xue1, Di Liu1, Rui Sui1, Qingqing Lv1, Xuerui Liu1, Yongsheng Wang1, Wei Chen2( ), Zhongbin Zhuang1,3( )
State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Environmental Catalysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China

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Electrochemical upgrading of biomass ethanol to value-added chemicals is promising for sustainable society. Here, we synthesize defective Ni3S2 nanowires (NWs), which show high activity towards electrochemical oxidation of ethanol to acetate. The Ni3S2 NWs are formed by the oriented attachment mechanism, and rich defects are introduced during the growth. A low onset potential of 1.31 V and high mass activity of 8,716 mA·mgNi−1 at 1.5 V are achieved using the synthesized Ni3S2 NWs toward the ethanol electro-oxidation, which are better than the Ni(OH)2 NWs and the Ni3S2 nanoparticles (NPs). And the selectivity for the acetate generation is ca. 99%. The high activity of Ni3S2 NWs is attributed to the easier oxidation of Ni(II) to the catalytically active Ni(III) species with the promotion from S component and rich defects. These results demonstrate that the defective NWs can be synthesized by the oriented attachment method and the defective Ni3S2 NWs structure as the efficient non-noble metal electrocatalysts for oxidative upgrading of ethanol.

Keywords: ethanol oxidation, oriented attachment, defects, electrocatalyst, nickel sulfide

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Received: 24 September 2021
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21971008) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (buctrc201916, buctrc201823).

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