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Synergizing high valence metal sites and amorphous/crystalline interfaces in electrochemical reconstructed CoFeOOH heterostructure enables efficient oxygen evolution reaction

Show Author's Information Xiangjian Liu,  Rui Liu,  Jinming Wang,  Yarong Liu,  Liuhua Li,  Wenxiu Yang( ),  Xiao Feng,  Bo Wang( )
Key Laboratory of Cluster Science Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Advanced Technology Research Institute (Jinan), Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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amorphous, electrochemical reconstruction, high valance transition metal, heterostructure interfaces, electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction
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Cobalt hydroxide nanosheet is among the most popular oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst yet still suffers from sluggish catalytic kinetics, limited activity, and poor stability. Here, an efficient in situ electrochemical reconstructed CoFe-hydroxides derived OER electrocatalyst was reported. The introduction of Fe promoted the transformation of Co2+ into Co3+ in CoFe-hydroxides nanosheet, along with the formation of abundant amorphous/crystalline interfaces. Thanks for the retained nanosheet microstructure, high valence Co3+ and Fe3+ species, and the amorphous/crystalline heterostructure interfaces, the as-designed electrochemical reconstructed CoFeOOH nanosheet/Ni foam (CoFeOOHNS/NF) electrode delivers 100 mA·cm−2 in alkaline at an overpotential of 275 mV and can stably electrocatalyze water oxidation for at least 35 h at 100 mA·cm−2. Meanwhile, the alkaline full water splitting electrolyzer achieves a current density of 10 mA·cm−2 only at 1.522 V for CoFeOOHNS/NF‖Pt/C/NF, which is much lower than that of Ru/C/NF‖Pt/C/NF (1.655 V@10 mA·cm−2). This work paves the way for in-situ synergetic modification engineering of electrochemical active components.


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Synergizing high valence metal sites and amorphous/crystalline interfaces in electrochemical reconstructed CoFeOOH heterostructure enables efficient oxygen evolution reaction

Show Author's information Xiangjian Liu, Rui Liu, Jinming Wang, Yarong Liu, Liuhua Li, Wenxiu Yang( ), Xiao Feng, Bo Wang( )
Key Laboratory of Cluster Science Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Advanced Technology Research Institute (Jinan), Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

Abstract

Cobalt hydroxide nanosheet is among the most popular oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst yet still suffers from sluggish catalytic kinetics, limited activity, and poor stability. Here, an efficient in situ electrochemical reconstructed CoFe-hydroxides derived OER electrocatalyst was reported. The introduction of Fe promoted the transformation of Co2+ into Co3+ in CoFe-hydroxides nanosheet, along with the formation of abundant amorphous/crystalline interfaces. Thanks for the retained nanosheet microstructure, high valence Co3+ and Fe3+ species, and the amorphous/crystalline heterostructure interfaces, the as-designed electrochemical reconstructed CoFeOOH nanosheet/Ni foam (CoFeOOHNS/NF) electrode delivers 100 mA·cm−2 in alkaline at an overpotential of 275 mV and can stably electrocatalyze water oxidation for at least 35 h at 100 mA·cm−2. Meanwhile, the alkaline full water splitting electrolyzer achieves a current density of 10 mA·cm−2 only at 1.522 V for CoFeOOHNS/NF‖Pt/C/NF, which is much lower than that of Ru/C/NF‖Pt/C/NF (1.655 V@10 mA·cm−2). This work paves the way for in-situ synergetic modification engineering of electrochemical active components.

Keywords: amorphous, electrochemical reconstruction, high valance transition metal, heterostructure interfaces, electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction

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Received: 12 April 2022
Revised: 26 May 2022
Accepted: 31 May 2022
Published: 26 July 2022
Issue date: October 2022

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We acknowledge the support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2020YFB1506300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21625102, 21971017, 21922502, 22075018, 51991344, 52025025, and 52072400), Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program, The Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 2019RC166), and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. Z190010).

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