Citation: Jing Jiang, Fengyan Li, Hui Su, Yangqin Gao, Ning Li, Lei Ge. Flower-like NiCo₂S₄/NiFeP/NF composite material as an effective electrocatalyst with high overall water splitting performance[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(9): 4367-4374. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.12.028 shu

Flower-like NiCo₂S₄/NiFeP/NF composite material as an effective electrocatalyst with high overall water splitting performance

Jing Jiang ^{a, b} ,
Fengyan Li ^{a, b} ,
Hui Su ^{a, b} ,
Yangqin Gao ^{a, b} ,
Ning Li ^{a, b} ,
Lei Ge ^{a, b, *,}

a.
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of New Energy and Materials, China University of Petroleum Beijing, Beijing 102249, China
b.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of New Energy and Materials, China University of Petroleum Beijing, Beijing 102249, China

gelei@cup.edu.cn

Received Date: 23 August 2021
Revised Date: 8 November 2021
Accepted Date: 13 December 2021
Available Online: 17 December 2021

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Rational design and building of high efficiency, secure and inexpensive electrocatalyst is a pressing demand and performance to promote sustainable improvement of hydrogen energy. The bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution response (HER) with high catalytic performance and steadiness in the equal electrolyte are extra treasured and meaningful. Herein, a unique three-dimensional (3D) structure electrocatalyst for NiCo₂S₄ growing on the flower-like NiFeP was designed and synthesized in this study. The results show that the flower-like NiCo₂S₄/NiFeP/NF composite electrocatalyst has large specific surface area, appropriate electrical conductivity, and greater lively websites uncovered in the three-dimensional structure, and affords extraordinary electrocatalytic overall performance for the ordinary water splitting. In alkaline solution, the OER and HER overpotentials of NiCo₂S₄/NiFeP/NF only need 293 mV and 205 mV overpotential to provide the current densities of 100 mA/cm² and 50 mA/cm², respectively. This high electrocatalytic activity exceeds the catalytic activity of most nickel-iron based electrocatalysts for OER and HER process. Accordingly, the optimized NiCo₂S₄/NiFeP/NF sample has higher stability (24 h) at 1.560 and 10 mA/cm², which extensively speeds up the overall water splitting process. In view of the above performance, this work offers a fine approach for the further improvement of low fee and excessive effectivity electrocatalyst.
- NiCo₂S₄,
- Electrocatalyst,
- NiFeP,
- Hydrogen evolution reaction,
- Water splitting
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