Bixbyite-type Ln2O3 as promoters of metallic Ni for alkaline electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

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The active-site density, intrinsic activity, and durability of Ni-based catalysts are critical to their application in industrial alkaline water electrolysis. This work develops a kind of promoters, the bixbyite-type lanthanide metal sesquioxides (Ln2O3), which can be implanted into metallic Ni by selective high-temperature reduction to achieve highly efficient Ni/Ln2O3 hybrid electrocatalysts toward hydrogen evolution reaction. The screened Ni/Yb2O3 catalyst shows the low overpotential (20.0 mV at 10 mA cm-2), low Tafel slope (44.6 mV dec-1), and excellent long-term durability (360 h at 500 mA cm-2), significantly outperforming the metallic Ni and benchmark Pt/C catalysts. The remarkable hydrogen evolution activity and stability of Ni/Yb2O3 are attributed to that the Yb2O3 promoter with high oxophilicity and thermodynamic stability can greatly enlarge the active-site density, reduce the energy barrier of water dissociation, optimize the free energy of hydrogen adsorption, and avoid the oxidation corrosion of Ni.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

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Nature communications - 13(2022), 1 vom: 05. Juli, Seite 3857

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Englisch

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Sun, Hongming [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Zhenhua [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Caiying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Cha [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Rong [VerfasserIn]
Lan, Yinghui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Li, Cheng-Peng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhihong [VerfasserIn]
Du, Miao [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41467-022-31561-4

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NLM343113945