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Mn-doping induced electronic modulation and rich oxygen vacancies on vertically grown NiFe2O4 nanosheet array for synergistically triggering oxygen evolution reaction

Yonghao Gan, Meilin Cui, Xiaoping Dai( ), Ying Ye, Fei Nie, Ziteng Ren, Xueli Yin, Baoqiang Wu, Yihua Cao, Run Cai, Xin Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
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Mn-doped NiFe2O4 induces the electronic modulation to entitle the hybridization between Ni 3d and O 2p orbitals to facilitate the formation of *OOH, and also creates more oxygen vacancies to reduce the adsorption energy of water molecules for triggering OER process.

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Large-scale electrolysis of water to produce high-purity hydrogen is one of the effective ways to solve the energy crisis and environmental pollution problems. However, efficient, cheap and stable catalysts are one of the bottlenecks for industrial application in water splitting. Herein, a facile one-step hydrothermal process was applied to fabricate Mn-doped nickel ferrite nanosheets (Mn-NiFe2O4) which shown a low overpotential of 200 mV at 50 mA·cm–2 and a small Tafel slope of 47 mV·dec–1, together with a prominent turnover frequency (TOF) value (0.14 s–1) and robust stability. The in-situ UV‒vis spectroscopy unveiled the surface reconstruction to generate NiOOH as active sites during oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The excellent electrocatalytic activity of Mn-NiFe2O4 is attributed to the vertically grown nanosheets for exposure more active sites, rich oxygen vacancies, and the hybridization between Ni 3d and O 2p orbitals caused by Mn doping. This work should provide a facile strategy by Mn-doping to simultaneously engineer oxygen vacancies and electronic structure for synergistically triggering oxygen evolution reaction.

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Mn dopingNiFe2O4 nanosheets oxygen vacancieselectronic modulationoxygen evolution reaction

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 5,
May 2022
Pages 3940-3945
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-4068-6
Cite this article:
Gan Y, Cui M, Dai X, et al. Mn-doping induced electronic modulation and rich oxygen vacancies on vertically grown NiFe2O4 nanosheet array for synergistically triggering oxygen evolution reaction. Nano Research, 2022, 15(5): 3940-3945. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-4068-6
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Received: 10 November 2021
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Accepted: 12 December 2021
Published: 04 January 2022
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