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Amorphous NiOn coupled with trace PtOx toward superior electrocatalytic overall water splitting in alkaline seawater media

Show Author's Information Wenli Yu1,2,  Hongru Liu2,  Ying Zhao2,  Yunlei Fu2,  Weiping Xiao3,  Bin Dong1,  Zexing Wu2( ),  Yongming Chai1( ),  Lei Wang2( )
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Science, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering, Ministry of Education, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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amorphous structure, hydrogen/oxygen evolution reaction, alkaline seawater splitting, ultralow Pt electrocatalyst
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Developing corrosion resistance bifunctional electrocatalysts with high activity and stability toward both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), especially electrolysis in seawater, is of prime significance but still pressingly challenging. Herein, in-situ introduced PtOx on the derivative amorphous NiOn is prepared via heat treatment of Ni ZIF-L nanosheets on nickel foam under low temperature (PtOx-NiOn/NF). The synthesized PtOx-NiOn/NF possesses suprahydrophilic and aerophilic surface, and then in favor of intimate contact between the electrode and electrolyte and release of the generated gas bubbles during the electrocatalysis. As a result, the in-situ PtOx-NiOn/NF electrode presents outstanding bifunctional activity, which only requires extremely low overpotentials of 32 and 240 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA·cm–2 for HER and OER, respectively, which exceeds most of the electrocatalysts previously developed and even suppresses commercial Pt/C and RuO2 electrodes. As for two-electrode cell organized by PtOx-NiOn/NF, the voltages down to 1.57 and 1.58 V are necessary to drive 10 mA·cm–2 with remarkable durability in 1 M KOH and alkaline seawater, respectively, along with remarkable stability. Moreover, a low cell voltage of 1.88 V is needed to achieve 1,000 mA·cm–2 toward water-splitting under industrial conditions. This study provides a new idea for designing in-situ amorphous metal oxide bifunctional electrocatalyst with strong Pt–support interaction for overall water splitting.


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Amorphous NiOn coupled with trace PtOx toward superior electrocatalytic overall water splitting in alkaline seawater media

Show Author's information Wenli Yu1,2, Hongru Liu2, Ying Zhao2, Yunlei Fu2, Weiping Xiao3, Bin Dong1, Zexing Wu2( ), Yongming Chai1( ), Lei Wang2( )
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Science, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering, Ministry of Education, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China

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Developing corrosion resistance bifunctional electrocatalysts with high activity and stability toward both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), especially electrolysis in seawater, is of prime significance but still pressingly challenging. Herein, in-situ introduced PtOx on the derivative amorphous NiOn is prepared via heat treatment of Ni ZIF-L nanosheets on nickel foam under low temperature (PtOx-NiOn/NF). The synthesized PtOx-NiOn/NF possesses suprahydrophilic and aerophilic surface, and then in favor of intimate contact between the electrode and electrolyte and release of the generated gas bubbles during the electrocatalysis. As a result, the in-situ PtOx-NiOn/NF electrode presents outstanding bifunctional activity, which only requires extremely low overpotentials of 32 and 240 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA·cm–2 for HER and OER, respectively, which exceeds most of the electrocatalysts previously developed and even suppresses commercial Pt/C and RuO2 electrodes. As for two-electrode cell organized by PtOx-NiOn/NF, the voltages down to 1.57 and 1.58 V are necessary to drive 10 mA·cm–2 with remarkable durability in 1 M KOH and alkaline seawater, respectively, along with remarkable stability. Moreover, a low cell voltage of 1.88 V is needed to achieve 1,000 mA·cm–2 toward water-splitting under industrial conditions. This study provides a new idea for designing in-situ amorphous metal oxide bifunctional electrocatalyst with strong Pt–support interaction for overall water splitting.

Keywords: amorphous structure, hydrogen/oxygen evolution reaction, alkaline seawater splitting, ultralow Pt electrocatalyst

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Received: 15 October 2022
Revised: 23 November 2022
Accepted: 02 December 2022
Published: 21 January 2023
Issue date: May 2023

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The work received funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22002068, 52272222, and 52072197), the Taishan Scholar Young Talent Program (No. tsqn201909114), the Youth Innovation and Technology Foundation of Shandong Higher Education Institutions, China (No. 2019KJC004), the Major Basic Research Program of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2020ZD09), the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2021M691700), the Outstanding Youth Foundation of Shandong Province, China (No. ZR2019JQ14), the Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project (No. 2019JZZY020405), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Nos. ZR2019BB002 and ZR2018BB031), and the Postdoctoral Innovation Project of Shandong Province.

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