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Download fileMultivariate MOF-Templated Pomegranate-Like Ni/C as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution and Urea Oxidation
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posted on 2018-01-08, 00:00 authored by Lu Wang, Lantian Ren, Xiaorui Wang, Xiao Feng, Junwen Zhou, Bo WangThe
production of hydrogen through electrolysis is considered as
a feasible strategy to quench the world’s clean-energy thirst.
Compared with water electrolysis, urea electrolysis presents a more
promising prospect in the way that it could carry out sewage treatment
as well as energy-efficient hydrogen production at the same time.
Herein, highly porous pomegranate-like Ni/C was synthesized from multivariate
metal–organic frameworks and exhibits excellent hydrogen evolution
activity with an unprecedented low overpotential of 40 mV at the current
density of 10 mA cm–2 in 1 M KOH, ranking among
the best earth-abundant electrocatalysts deposited on glassy carbon
electrodes reported to date. In addition, it also displays superb
anodic urea oxidation activity with an onset potential of 1.33 V vs
RHE. Furthermore, a two-electrode urea electrolyzer with Ni/C as both
the cathode and anode electrocatalyst was fabricated and generates
52 times more hydrogen than the water electrolyzer under the same
conditions.
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Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalystanodic urea oxidation activityurea electrolysisanode electrocatalystUrea Oxidationwater electrolysisearth-abundant electrocatalysts52 timesNi40 mV1.33 V vs RHEHydrogen Evolutionsewage treatmentcarbon electrodeshydrogen evolution activityhydrogen productionwater electrolyzertwo-electrode urea electrolyzer1 M KOH