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Nano Research 2024, 17(3): 1182-1189 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5962-x
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Bifunctional interstitial phosphorous doping strategy boosts platinum-zinc alloy for efficient ammonia oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction

Show Author's Information Tianqi Yu1,  Kexin Tan1,  Jia Wu1,  Yongjin Zou2,  Shibin Yin1( )
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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hydrogen evolution reaction, bifunctional catalyst, ammonia oxidation reaction, PtZn alloy, phosphorous doping
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It is still a lack of bifunctional catalysts for ammonia oxidation reaction (AOR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to their different reaction mechanisms. In this work, P is doped into PtZn alloy by calcination with NaH2PO2 as P source to induce the lattice tensile strain of Pt and the electronic interaction between P and Zn, which optimizes the AOR and HER activity simultaneously. The sample with the optimal P content can drive the AOR peak current density of 293.6 mA·mgPt−1, which is almost 2.7 times of Pt. For HER, the overpotential at −10 mA·cm−2 is only 23 mV with Tafel slope of 34.1 mV·dec−1. Furthermore, only 0.59 V is needed to obtain 50 mA·mgPt−1 for ammonia electrolysis under a two-electrode system. Therefore, this work shows an ingenious method to design bifunctional catalysts for ammonia electrolysis.


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Bifunctional interstitial phosphorous doping strategy boosts platinum-zinc alloy for efficient ammonia oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction

Show Author's information Tianqi Yu1, Kexin Tan1, Jia Wu1, Yongjin Zou2, Shibin Yin1( )
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China

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It is still a lack of bifunctional catalysts for ammonia oxidation reaction (AOR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to their different reaction mechanisms. In this work, P is doped into PtZn alloy by calcination with NaH2PO2 as P source to induce the lattice tensile strain of Pt and the electronic interaction between P and Zn, which optimizes the AOR and HER activity simultaneously. The sample with the optimal P content can drive the AOR peak current density of 293.6 mA·mgPt−1, which is almost 2.7 times of Pt. For HER, the overpotential at −10 mA·cm−2 is only 23 mV with Tafel slope of 34.1 mV·dec−1. Furthermore, only 0.59 V is needed to obtain 50 mA·mgPt−1 for ammonia electrolysis under a two-electrode system. Therefore, this work shows an ingenious method to design bifunctional catalysts for ammonia electrolysis.

Keywords: hydrogen evolution reaction, bifunctional catalyst, ammonia oxidation reaction, PtZn alloy, phosphorous doping

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Received: 30 May 2023
Revised: 25 June 2023
Accepted: 26 June 2023
Published: 31 July 2023
Issue date: March 2024

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22162004), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province (No. 2022JJD120011), and the Opening Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials (No. 211025-K).

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