A superaerophobic bimetallic selenides heterostructure for efficient industrial-level oxygen evolution at ultra-high current densities

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2020

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Yuan, J.
Cheng, X.
Wang, H.
Lei, C.
Pardiwala, S.
Yang, B.
Li, Z.
Zhang, Q.
Lei, L.
Wang, S.

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Nano-Micro Letters, 2020; 12(1):1-12

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Jiaxin Yuan, Xiaodi Cheng, Hanqing Wang, Chaojun Lei, Sameer Pardiwala ... Shaobin Wang ... et al.

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Cost-effective and stable electrocatalysts with ultra-high current densities for electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are critical to the energy crisis and environmental pollution. Herein, we report a superaerophobic three dimensional (3D) heterostructured nanowrinkles of bimetallic selenides consisting of crystalline NiSe2 and NiFe2Se4 grown on NiFe alloy (NiSe2/NiFe2Se4@NiFe) prepared by a thermal selenization procedure. In this unique 3D heterostructure, numerous nanowrinkles of NiSe2/NiFe2Se4 hybrid with a thickness of ~ 100 nm are grown on NiFe alloy in a uniform manner. Profiting by the large active surface area and high electronic conductivity, the superaerophobic NiSe2/NiFe2Se4@NiFe heterostructure exhibits excellent electrocatalytic activity and durability towards OER in alkaline media, outputting the low potentials of 1.53 and 1.54 V to achieve ultra-high current densities of 500 and 1000 mA cm−2, respectively, which is among the most active Ni/Fe-based selenides, and even superior to the benchmark Ir/C catalyst. The in-situ derived FeOOH and NiOOH species from NiSe2/NiFe2Se4@NiFe are deemed to be efficient active sites for OER.

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