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Accelerating water dissociation at carbon supported nanoscale Ni/NiO heterojunction electrocatalysts for high-efficiency alkaline hydrogen evolution

Show Author's Information Cong Li1,2,  Jiang-Yan Xue1,  Wei Zhang1,  Fei-Long Li3( ),  Hongwei Gu1,  Pierre Braunstein4,  Jian-Ping Lang1,2( )
College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu 215500, China
Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, Institut de Chimie (UMR 7177 CNRS), 4 rue Blaise Pascal-CS 90032, Strasbourg 67081, France
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hydrogen evolution reaction, water dissociation, Ni/NiO heterojunction, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) derivatives, reduction pyrolysis
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The synergistic catalysis of heterojunction electrocatalysts for the multi-step process in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a promising approach to enhance the kinetics of alkaline HER. Herein, we proposed a strategy to form nanoscale Ni/NiO heterojunction porous graphitic carbon composites (Ni/NiO-PGC) by reduction-pyrolysis of the preformed Ni-metal-organic framework (MOF) under H2/N2 atmosphere. Benefiting from low electron transfer resistance, increased number of active sites, and unique hierarchical micro-mesoporous structure, the optimized Ni/NiO-PGC10-1-400 exhibited excellent electrocatalytic performance and robust stability for alkaline HER (η10 = 30 mV, 65 h). Density functional theory (DFT) studies revealed that the redistribution of electrons at the Ni/NiO interface enables the NiO phase to easily initiate the dissociation of alkaline H2O, and shifts down the d-band center of Ni and optimizes the H* adsorption–desorption process of Ni, thereby leading to extremely high HER activity. This work contributes to a further understanding of the synergistic promotion of the multi-step HER processes by heterojunction electrocatalysts.


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Accelerating water dissociation at carbon supported nanoscale Ni/NiO heterojunction electrocatalysts for high-efficiency alkaline hydrogen evolution

Show Author's information Cong Li1,2, Jiang-Yan Xue1, Wei Zhang1, Fei-Long Li3( ), Hongwei Gu1, Pierre Braunstein4, Jian-Ping Lang1,2( )
College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu 215500, China
Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, Institut de Chimie (UMR 7177 CNRS), 4 rue Blaise Pascal-CS 90032, Strasbourg 67081, France

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The synergistic catalysis of heterojunction electrocatalysts for the multi-step process in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a promising approach to enhance the kinetics of alkaline HER. Herein, we proposed a strategy to form nanoscale Ni/NiO heterojunction porous graphitic carbon composites (Ni/NiO-PGC) by reduction-pyrolysis of the preformed Ni-metal-organic framework (MOF) under H2/N2 atmosphere. Benefiting from low electron transfer resistance, increased number of active sites, and unique hierarchical micro-mesoporous structure, the optimized Ni/NiO-PGC10-1-400 exhibited excellent electrocatalytic performance and robust stability for alkaline HER (η10 = 30 mV, 65 h). Density functional theory (DFT) studies revealed that the redistribution of electrons at the Ni/NiO interface enables the NiO phase to easily initiate the dissociation of alkaline H2O, and shifts down the d-band center of Ni and optimizes the H* adsorption–desorption process of Ni, thereby leading to extremely high HER activity. This work contributes to a further understanding of the synergistic promotion of the multi-step HER processes by heterojunction electrocatalysts.

Keywords: hydrogen evolution reaction, water dissociation, Ni/NiO heterojunction, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) derivatives, reduction pyrolysis

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Received: 18 August 2022
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Published: 15 December 2022
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22271203, 21773163, and 22001021), the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (No. KF2021005), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20201048), the Natural Science Research Project of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province (No. 20KJB150008), the Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and the Project of Scientific and Technologic Infrastructure of Suzhou (No. SZS201905). We are grateful to the useful comments and suggestions from the editor and the reviewers.

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