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Heterojunction interface editing in Co/NiCoP nanospheres by oxygen atoms decoration for synergistic accelerating hydrogen and oxygen evolution electrocatalysis

Show Author's Information Yan Lin1,  Xiaojiao Cui1,  Yilin Zhao2,  Zhicheng Liu1,  Guoxin Zhang1,  Yuan Pan2( )
College of Energy Storage Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
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electrocatalysis, heterojunction, bifunctional catalyst, transition metal phosphides, nanocrystals synthesis
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Lin Y, Cui X, Zhao Y, et al. Heterojunction interface editing in Co/NiCoP nanospheres by oxygen atoms decoration for synergistic accelerating hydrogen and oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 8765-8772. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5482-8
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Controllable designing of well-defined heterojunction nanostructures provides an insightful strategy for accelerating the kinetics of the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER/OER), but such task is still challenging. Herein, we proposed a protocol of heterojunction interface editing (HIE) strategy by oxygen atoms decoration for synergistic boosting electrocatalytic HER and OER performances. A novel Co/NiCoP nanospheres (NSs) heterojunction was synthesized by crystal seed template transformation method with Ni5P4 microspheres as seeds. The effective oxygen atoms interface editing increased the oxidation state of Co atoms and prolonged the Co–P bond length of Co/NiCoP NSs heterojunction, thus the electron localization on P sites was enhanced, leading to the dramatically elevated HER and OER performances simultaneously. The as-constructed O-Co/NiCoP NSs show excellent electrocatalytic activity with 361 and 430 mV vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) to arrive high current density of 300 mA·cm−2 for HER and OER in 1 M KOH as well as good stability. The proposed HIE concept could provide a new perspective on the catalyst design for energy conversion systems.


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Heterojunction interface editing in Co/NiCoP nanospheres by oxygen atoms decoration for synergistic accelerating hydrogen and oxygen evolution electrocatalysis

Show Author's information Yan Lin1, Xiaojiao Cui1, Yilin Zhao2, Zhicheng Liu1, Guoxin Zhang1, Yuan Pan2( )
College of Energy Storage Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China

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Controllable designing of well-defined heterojunction nanostructures provides an insightful strategy for accelerating the kinetics of the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER/OER), but such task is still challenging. Herein, we proposed a protocol of heterojunction interface editing (HIE) strategy by oxygen atoms decoration for synergistic boosting electrocatalytic HER and OER performances. A novel Co/NiCoP nanospheres (NSs) heterojunction was synthesized by crystal seed template transformation method with Ni5P4 microspheres as seeds. The effective oxygen atoms interface editing increased the oxidation state of Co atoms and prolonged the Co–P bond length of Co/NiCoP NSs heterojunction, thus the electron localization on P sites was enhanced, leading to the dramatically elevated HER and OER performances simultaneously. The as-constructed O-Co/NiCoP NSs show excellent electrocatalytic activity with 361 and 430 mV vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) to arrive high current density of 300 mA·cm−2 for HER and OER in 1 M KOH as well as good stability. The proposed HIE concept could provide a new perspective on the catalyst design for energy conversion systems.

Keywords: electrocatalysis, heterojunction, bifunctional catalyst, transition metal phosphides, nanocrystals synthesis

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Received: 17 December 2022
Revised: 06 January 2023
Accepted: 07 January 2023
Published: 28 February 2023
Issue date: July 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22109090 and 22108306), the Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province (No. tsqn201909065), Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Nos. ZR2021YQ15 and ZR2020QB174), Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale (No. KF2021107), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 22CX07009A).

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