Water electrolysis is severely impeded by the kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction(OER)due to its inherent multistep four-electron transfer mechanism.However,designing advanced OER electrocatalysts with abun...Water electrolysis is severely impeded by the kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction(OER)due to its inherent multistep four-electron transfer mechanism.However,designing advanced OER electrocatalysts with abundant active sites,robust stability,and low cost remains a huge challenge.Herein,a facile and versatile multiscale manipulating strategy was proposed to construct a novel V-NiFe_(2)O_(4)@Ni_(2)P heterostructure self-supported on Ni foam(V-NiFe_(2)O_(4)@Ni_(2)P/NF).In such unique architecture,the intrinsic OER catalytic activity was greatly boosted by the in-situ generated heterogeneous Ni_(2)P phase induced by precisely selective phosphorylation of the NiFe-precursor,while the synchronous metal V doping stimulated the activity via modulating the electronic configuration,thus synergistically promoting its OER kinetics.In addition,the binder-free catalyst built from three-dimensional(3D)nanosheet arrays(NSs)can offer a large active surface for efficient charge/mass transfer and a robust scaffold for the integrated structure.The as-prepared flexible electrode exhibited superior OER activity with an ultra-low overpotential of 230 mV at 50 mA·cm^(−2)and outstanding long-term stability for 40 h.This discovery is expected to provide an opportunity to explore efficient and stable commercial materials for scalable,efficient,and robust electrochemical hydrogen(H_(2))production.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province,China(Nos.2019CFB569 and 2020CFB430)the Science and Technology Foundation for Creative Research Group of Hubei Normal University,China(No.2019CZ08).
文摘Water electrolysis is severely impeded by the kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction(OER)due to its inherent multistep four-electron transfer mechanism.However,designing advanced OER electrocatalysts with abundant active sites,robust stability,and low cost remains a huge challenge.Herein,a facile and versatile multiscale manipulating strategy was proposed to construct a novel V-NiFe_(2)O_(4)@Ni_(2)P heterostructure self-supported on Ni foam(V-NiFe_(2)O_(4)@Ni_(2)P/NF).In such unique architecture,the intrinsic OER catalytic activity was greatly boosted by the in-situ generated heterogeneous Ni_(2)P phase induced by precisely selective phosphorylation of the NiFe-precursor,while the synchronous metal V doping stimulated the activity via modulating the electronic configuration,thus synergistically promoting its OER kinetics.In addition,the binder-free catalyst built from three-dimensional(3D)nanosheet arrays(NSs)can offer a large active surface for efficient charge/mass transfer and a robust scaffold for the integrated structure.The as-prepared flexible electrode exhibited superior OER activity with an ultra-low overpotential of 230 mV at 50 mA·cm^(−2)and outstanding long-term stability for 40 h.This discovery is expected to provide an opportunity to explore efficient and stable commercial materials for scalable,efficient,and robust electrochemical hydrogen(H_(2))production.
