Vertically oriented cobalt selenide/NiFe layered-double-hydroxide nanosheets supported on exfoliated graphene foil: An efficient 3D electrode for overall water splitting

Yang Hou, Martin R. Lohe, Jian Zhang, Shaohua Liu, Xiaodong Zhuang, Xinliang Feng

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Developing cost-effective electrocatalysts for both oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in basic media is critical to renewable energy conversion technologies. Here, we report a ternary hybrid that is constructed by in situ growth of cobalt selenide (Co0.85Se) nanosheets vertically oriented on electrochemically exfoliated graphene foil, with subsequent deposition of NiFe layered-double-hydroxide by a hydrothermal treatment. The resulting 3D hierarchical hybrid, possessing a high surface area of 156 m2 g-1 and strong coupling effect, exhibits excellent catalytic activity for OER, which only requires overpotentials of 1.50 and 1.51 V to attain current densities of 150 and 250 mA cm-2, respectively. These overpotentials are much lower than those reported for other non-noble-metal materials and Ir/C catalysts. The hybrid also efficiently catalyzes HER in base with a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at an overpotential of -0.26 V. Most importantly, we achieve a current density of 20 mA cm-2 at 1.71 V by using the 3D hybrid as both a cathode and an anode for overall water splitting, which is well comparable to the integrated performance of Pt/C and Ir/C catalysts.

源语言英语
页(从-至)478-483
页数6
期刊Energy and Environmental Science
9
2
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 2月 2016
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