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Interface engineering of Fe-Sn-Co sulfide/oxyhydroxide heterostructural electrocatalyst for synergistic water splitting

Show Author's Information Siyu Chen1,  Ting Zhang1,  Jingyi Han1,  Hui Qi2,  Shihui Jiao1,  Changmin Hou3,  Jingqi Guan1( )
Institute of Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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oxygen evolution reaction, hydrogen evolution reaction, bifunctional electrocatalyst, overall water splitting, sulfide
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Chen S, Zhang T, Han J, et al. Interface engineering of Fe-Sn-Co sulfide/oxyhydroxide heterostructural electrocatalyst for synergistic water splitting. Nano Research Energy, 2024, 3: e9120106. https://doi.org/10.26599/NRE.2023.9120106
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To realize large-scale hydrogen production by electrolysis of water, it is essential to develop non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Here, we fabricate Sn-, Fe-, and Co-based sulfide/oxyhydroxide heterostructural catalyst on nickel foam (FeSnCo0.2SxOy/NF) by solvothermal method. The FeSnCo0.2SxOy/NF requires low overpotentials of 48 and 186 mV at 10 mA·cm–2, respectively, for HER and OER. When it is assembled into an electrolytic cell as a bifunctional electrocatalyst, it only needs 1.54 V to reach 10 mA·cm–2, far better than IrO2||Pt/C electrolyzer. The formation of sulfide/hydroxide heterostructural interfaces improves the electron transfer and reduces the reaction energy barrier, thus promoting the electrocatalytic processes.


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Interface engineering of Fe-Sn-Co sulfide/oxyhydroxide heterostructural electrocatalyst for synergistic water splitting

Show Author's information Siyu Chen1, Ting Zhang1, Jingyi Han1, Hui Qi2, Shihui Jiao1, Changmin Hou3, Jingqi Guan1( )
Institute of Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

Abstract

To realize large-scale hydrogen production by electrolysis of water, it is essential to develop non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Here, we fabricate Sn-, Fe-, and Co-based sulfide/oxyhydroxide heterostructural catalyst on nickel foam (FeSnCo0.2SxOy/NF) by solvothermal method. The FeSnCo0.2SxOy/NF requires low overpotentials of 48 and 186 mV at 10 mA·cm–2, respectively, for HER and OER. When it is assembled into an electrolytic cell as a bifunctional electrocatalyst, it only needs 1.54 V to reach 10 mA·cm–2, far better than IrO2||Pt/C electrolyzer. The formation of sulfide/hydroxide heterostructural interfaces improves the electron transfer and reduces the reaction energy barrier, thus promoting the electrocatalytic processes.

Keywords: oxygen evolution reaction, hydrogen evolution reaction, bifunctional electrocatalyst, overall water splitting, sulfide

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Received: 10 September 2023
Revised: 16 October 2023
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Published: 22 November 2023
Issue date: June 2024

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22075099) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (No. 20220101051JC).

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