Citation: Dingwen CHEN, Siheng YANG, Haiyan FU, Hua CHEN, Xueli ZHENG, Weichao XUE, Jiaqi XU, Ruixiang LI. NiOOH-mediated synthesis of gold nanoaggregates for electrocatalytic performance for selective oxidation of glycerol to glycolate[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2025, 41(11): 2317-2326. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.20250053 shu

NiOOH-mediated synthesis of gold nanoaggregates for electrocatalytic performance for selective oxidation of glycerol to glycolate

Dingwen CHEN ¹ ,
Siheng YANG ¹ ,
Haiyan FU ¹ ,
Hua CHEN ¹ ,
Xueli ZHENG ¹ ,
Weichao XUE ¹ ,
Jiaqi XU ^{1, 2} ,
Ruixiang LI ^1,,

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School of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland

Corresponding author: Ruixiang LI, liruixiang@scu.edu.cn
Received Date: 19 February 2025
Revised Date: 9 July 2025

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In this study, a nickel foam (NF) was treated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) to obtain nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH), which was used as the precursor to construct a gold nanoaggregate/foam nickel composite catalyst (Au/RF100-NF, RF represents the surface roughness of NF after CV treatment). The formation of the NiOOH precursors and Au nanoaggregates synergistically enhances the electrochemical active surface area (ECSA) of the Au/RF100-NF while significantly improving the interfacial charge transfer kinetics, thereby contributing to the boosted glycerol oxidation reaction (GOR) performance. Moreover, the formation of Au nanoaggregates promotes the C—C cleavages during GOR, significantly reducing the Faraday efficiency (FE) for lactate (C₃ product) and markedly increasing the FE for C₂ and C₁ products, such as glycolate and formate, over the Au/RF100-NF catalyst. Finally, pulse electrolysis conditions were applied to inhibit the further conversion of glycolate toward formate. As a result, the Au/RF100-NF catalyst achieved highly selectivity to glycolate with a FE up to ca. 49.1%, which was 1.67 times higher than that of the Au/NF catalyst, where Au nanoparticles were directly deposited onto the NF without the formation of NiOOH.
- electrocatalysis,
- glycerol electrooxidation,
- glycolic acid,
- gold nanoparticles,
- biomass conversion,
- pulsed electrolysis
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