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Electronic and Morphological Dual Modulation of Cobalt Carbonate Hydroxides by Mn Doping toward Highly Efficient and Stable Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting
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posted on 2017-05-23, 00:00 authored by Tang Tang, Wen-Jie Jiang, Shuai Niu, Ning Liu, Hao Luo, Yu-Yun Chen, Shi-Feng Jin, Feng Gao, Li-Jun Wan, Jin-Song HuDeveloping bifunctional
efficient and durable non-noble electrocatalysts
for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction
(HER) is highly desirable and challenging for overall water splitting.
Herein, Co–Mn carbonate hydroxide (CoMnCH) nanosheet arrays
with controllable morphology and composition were developed on nickel
foam (NF) as such a bifunctional electrocatalyst. It is discovered
that Mn doping in CoCH can simultaneously modulate the nanosheet morphology
to significantly increase the electrochemical active surface area
for exposing more accessible active sites and tune the electronic
structure of Co center to effectively boost its intrinsic activity.
As a result, the optimized Co1Mn1CH/NF electrode
exhibits unprecedented OER activity with an ultralow overpotential
of 294 mV at 30 mA cm–2, compared with all reported
metal carbonate hydroxides. Benefited from 3D open nanosheet array
topographic structure with tight contact between nanosheets and NF,
it is able to deliver a high and stable current density of 1000 mA
cm–2 at only an overpotential of 462 mV with no
interference from high-flux oxygen evolution. Despite no reports about
effective HER on metal carbonate hydroxides yet, the small overpotential
of 180 mV at 10 mA cm–2 for HER can be also achieved
on Co1Mn1CH/NF by the dual modulation of Mn
doping. This offers a two-electrode electrolyzer using bifunctional
Co1Mn1CH/NF as both anode and cathode to perform
stable overall water splitting with a cell voltage of only 1.68 V
at 10 mA cm–2. These findings may open up opportunities
to explore other multimetal carbonate hydroxides as practical bifunctional
electrocatalysts for scale-up water electrolysis.
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metal carbonate hydroxidesnanosheetCobalt Carbonate Hydroxidesmultimetal carbonate hydroxideshydrogen evolution reactionMn dopingscale-up water electrolysiselectrocatalystwater splittingcmoxygen evolution reactionNFCHHERoverpotentialmVhigh-flux oxygen evolutionbifunctionalOERmAStable Bifunctional Electrocatalysts
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