Nickel promoted cobalt disulfide nanowire array supported on carbon cloth: An efficient and stable bifunctional electrocatalyst for full water splitting

Electrochemistry Communications

Volumn 63, Issue , 2016, Pages 60-64

  Fang, Weizhen ^a   Liu, Danni ^a   Lu, Qun ^a   Sun, Xuping ^b   Asiri, Abdullah M ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bifunctional catalysts; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Nickel promoted cobalt disulfide nanowires; Oxygen evolution reaction

Indexed keywords

CARBON DISULFIDE; COBALT; NANOWIRES; NICKEL; PRECIOUS METALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

BI-FUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS; BIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCATALYSTS; COBALT DISULFIDE; GOOD DURABILITY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; WATER ELECTROLYZER;

ELECTROCATALYSTS;

EID: 84953735727     PISSN: 13882481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2015.10.010     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. A.J. Bard, and M.A. Fox Artificial photosynthesis: solar splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen Acc. Chem. Res. 28 1995 141 145
2. M.S. Dresselhaus, and I.L. Thomas Alternative energy technologies Nature 414 2001 332 337
3. J. Chow, R.J. Kopp, and P.R. Portney Energy resources and global development Science 302 2003 1528 1531
4. J.A. Turner Sustainable hydrogen production Science 305 2004 972 974
5. N. Armaroli, and V. Balzani The hydrogen issue ChemSusChem 4 2011 21 36
6. P. Liu, and J.A. Rodriguez Catalysts for hydrogen evolution from the [NiFe] hydrogenase to the Ni2P(001) surface: the importance of ensemble effect J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 2005 14871 14878
7. K. Zeng, and D. Zhang Recent progress in alkaline water electrolysis for hydrogen production and applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. 36 2010 307 326
8. X. Zou, and Y. Zhang Noble metal-free hydrogen evolution catalysts for water splitting Chem. Soc. Rev. 44 2015 5148 5180
9. T.R. Cook, D.K. Dogutan, S.Y. Reece, Y. Surendranath, T.S. Teets, and D.G. Nocera Solar energy supply and storage for the legacy and nonlegacy worlds Chem. Rev. 110 2010 6474 6502
10. H. Jin, J. Wang, D. Su, Z. Wei, Z. Pang, and Y. Wang In situ cobalt-cobalt oxide/N-doped carbon hybrids as superior bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137 2015 2688 2694
11. C. Tang, N. Cheng, Z. Pu, W. Xing, and X. Sun NiSe nanowire film supported on nickel foam: an efficient and stable 3D bifunctional electrode for full water splitting Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54 2015 9351 9355
12. J. Tian, Q. Liu, A.M. Asiri, and X. Sun Self-supported nanoporous cobalt phosphide nanowire arrays: an efficient 3D hydrogen-evolving cathode over the wide range of pH 0-14 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 2014 7587 7590
13. 2 nanoparticles for oxygen evolution in acid and alkaline solutions J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3 2012 399 404
14. E.A. Hernandez-Pagan, N.M. Vargas-Barbosa, T. Wang, Y. Zhao, E.S. Smotkin, and T.E. Mallouk Resistance and polarization losses in aqueous buffer-membrane electrolytes for water-splitting photoelectrochemical cells Energy Environ. Sci. 5 2012 7582 7589
15. N. Danilovic, R. Subbaraman, K.-C. Chang, S.H. Chang, Y.J. Kang, J. Snyder, A.P. Paulikas, D. Strmcnik, Y.-T. Kim, D. Myers, V.R. Stamenkovic, and N.M. Markovic Activity-stability trends for the oxygen evolution reaction on monometallic oxides in acidic environments J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5 2014 2474 2478
16. M.S. Burke, M.G. Kast, L. Trotochaud, A.M. Smith, and S.W. Boettcher Cobalt-iron (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts: the role of structure and composition on activity, stability, and mechanism J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137 2015 3638 3648
17. 2 nanopyramid array grown on 3D carbon fiber paper as an excellent electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution J. Mater. Chem. A 3 2015 6306 6310
18. 2) micro- and nanostructures J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 2014 10053 10061
19. 2 for electrochemically hydrogen evolution over wide pH range from 0 to 14 Electrochim. Acta 148 2014 170 174
20. 2 nanoparticles grown on carbon fiber paper: an efficient and stable electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 2014 4897 4900
21. D. Kong, J.J. Cha, H. Wang, H.R. Lee, and Y. Cui First-row transition metal dichalcogenide catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction Energy Environ. Sci. 6 2013 3553 3558
22. M. Pavlov, P.E.M. Siegbahn, M.R.A. Blomberg, and R.H. Crabtree Mechanism of H-H activation by nickel-iron hydrogenase J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 1998 548 555
23. Z. Peng, D. Jia, A.M. Al-Enizi, A.A. Elzatahry, and G. Zheng From water oxidation to reduction: homologous Ni-Co based nanowires as complementary water splitting electrocatalysts Adv. Energy Mater. 5 2015 1402031
24. 2, and their alloys) for highly efficient hydrogen evolution and polysulfide reduction electrocatalysis J. Phys. Chem. C 118 2014 21347 21356
25. 2 catalysts for oxygen evolution in a solid polymer electrolyte Int. J. Electrochem. Sci. 6 2011 6607 6619
26. Z. Xing, Q. Liu, A.M. Asiri, and X. Sun Closely interconnected network of molybdenum phosphide nanoparticles: a highly efficient electrocatalyst for generating hydrogen from water Adv. Mater. 26 2014 5702 5707
27. 2 nanorods/Ni foam composite electrode with low overpotential for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution Energy Environ. Sci. 6 2013 2921 2924
28. X.-J. Lv, G.-W. She, S.-X. Zhou, and Y.-M. Li Highly efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen production by nickel promoted molybdenum sulfide microspheres catalysts RSC Adv. 3 2013 21231 21236
29. 4@NiO hybrid arrays with improved electrochemical performance for pseudocapacitors J. Mater. Chem. A 3 2015 13900 13905
30. D. Merki, H. Vrubel, L. Rovelli, S. Fierro, and X. Hu Fe, Co, and Ni ions promote the catalytic activity of amorphous molybdenum sulfide films for hydrogen evolution Chem. Sci. 3 2012 2515 2525
31. 2-based thin films as model catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction J. Catal. 258 2008 235 242
32. 4 hollow nanospheres grown on graphene as advanced electrode materials for supercapacitors J. Mater. Chem. 22 2012 21387 21391
33. 4 nanowire arrays for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution Adv. Mater. 22 2010 1926 1929
34. 4 Chem. Commun. 49 2013 7522 7524
35. H. Liang, F. Meng, M. Cabán-Acevedo, L. Li, A. Forticaux, L. Xiu, Z. Wang, and S. Jin Hydrothermal continuous flow synthesis and exfoliation of NiCo layered double hydroxide nanosheets for enhanced oxygen evolution catalysis Nano Lett. 15 2015 1421 1427
36. N. Jiang, B. You, M. Sheng, and Y. Sun Electrodeposited cobalt-phosphorous-derived films as competent bifunctional catalysts for overall water splitting Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54 2015 6251 6254
37. F. Song, and X. Hu Ultrathin cobalt-manganese layered double hydroxide is an efficient oxygen evolution catalyst J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 2014 16481 16484
38. A. Dutta, and J. Datta Energy efficient role of Ni/NiO in PdNi nano catalyst used in alkaline DEFC J. Mater. Chem. A 2 2014 3237 3250
39. T. Liu, Y. Liang, Q. Liu, X. Sun, Y. He, and A.M. Asiri Electrodeposition of cobalt-sulfide nanosheets film as an efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction Electrochem. Commun. 60 2015 92 96
40. Z. Li, J. Wang, L. Niu, J. Sun, P. Gong, W. Hong, L. Ma, and S. Yang Rapid synthesis of graphene/cobalt hydroxide composite with enhanced electrochemical performance for supercapacitors J. Power Sources 245 2014 224 231
41. J. Jiang, A. Zhang, L. Li, and L. Ai Nickel-cobalt layered double hydroxide nanosheets as high-performance electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction J. Power Sources 278 2015 445 451
42. 4 (M = Li, Ni, Cu) in the oxygen evolution reaction J. Electroanal. Chem. 429 1997 157 168
43. J. Luo, J.-H. Im, M.T. Mayer, M. Schreier, M.K. Nazeeruddin, N.-G. Park, S.D. Tilley, H.J. Fan, and M. Grätzel Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts Science 345 2014 1593 1596