Nickel-decorated RuO2 nanocrystals with rich oxygen vacancies for high-efficiency overall water splitting

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Designing transition metal-oxide-based bifunctional electrocatalysts with excellent activity and stability for OER/HER to achieve efficient water splitting is of great importance for renewable energy technologies. Herein, a highly efficient bifunctional catalysts with oxygen-rich vacancies of nickel-decorated RuO2 (NiRuO2-x) prepared by a unique one-pot glucose-blowing approach were investigated. Remarkably, the NiRuO2-x catalysts exhibited excellent HER and OER activity at 10 mA cm-2 in alkaline solution with only a minimum overpotential of 51 mV and 245 mV, respectively. Furthermore, the NiRuO2-x overall water splitting exhibited an ultra-low voltage of 1.6 V to obtain 10 mA cm-2 and stability for more than 10 h. XPS measurement and theoretical calculations demonstrated that the introduction of Ni-dopant and oxygen vacancies make the d-band center to lie close to the Fermi energy level, the chemical bonds between the active site and the adsorbed oxygen intermediate state are enhanced, thereby lowering the reaction activation barriers of HER and OER. The assembly of solar-driven alkaline electrolyzers facilitate the application of the NiRuO2-x bifunctional catalysts.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:630

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Journal of colloid and interface science - 630(2023), Pt A vom: 15. Jan., Seite 940-950

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Xinyu [VerfasserIn]
Song, Jiexi [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Yifei [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Yanqing [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Jianbin [VerfasserIn]
Qu, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Bianjing [VerfasserIn]
Du, Shiyu [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Diwei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chuntao [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Dongping [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Density functional theory
Journal Article
Nickel-decorated
Overall water splitting
Oxygen vacancies
RuO(2)

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Date Revised 14.11.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.061

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NLM348416393