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The development of high-efficiency electrocatalysts for overall water splitting under large current density is significant and challenging. Herein, a high-performing Fe-doped MoNi alloy catalyst (M-H-MoNiFe-50) abundant with flower-like nanorods assemblies has been prepared by high-pressure microwave reaction and hydrogen reduction. Firstly, Fe doped NiMoO4 precursor (M-MoNiFe-50) was synthesized by microwave fast heating, ensuring the robustness of nanorods, which owns larger area and improved catalytic activity than that by conventional hydrothermal method. Secondly, M-MoNiFe-50 was reduced in H2/Ar to fabricate Fe-incorporated MoNi4 alloys (M-H-MoNiFe-50), greatly enhancing the conductivity and facilitating hydrogen/oxygen spillover. The final M-H-MoNiFe-50 exhibits remarkable activity for alkaline/acidic hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction with low overpotential of 208 (alkaline), 254 (acid) and 347 mV at 1,000 mA·cm−2. Moreover, an alkaline water electrolyzer is established using M-H-MoNiFe-50 as anode and cathode, generating a current density of 100 mA·cm−2 at 1.58 V with encouraging durability of 50 h at 1,000 mA·cm−2. The extraordinary water splitting performance can be chalked up to the large surface area, favorable charge transfer, modified electron distribution, intrinsic robustness as well as an efficient gas spillover of M-H-MoNiFe-50. The final electrocatalyst has great prospects for practical application and confirms the significance of Fe doping, microwave method and spillover effect for catalytic performance improvement.
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52174283) and Qingdao Science and Technology Benefiting People Special Project (No. 20-3-4-8-nsh), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 20CX02212A), the Development Fund of State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and the Postgraduate Innovation Project of China University of Petroleum (No. YCX2020046).