Citation: Yurong Li, Qifei Guo, Yimin Jiang, Wei Shen, Ming Li, Rongxing He. A novel ball-in-ball hollow oxygen-incorporating cobalt sulfide spheres as high-efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2021, 32(2): 755-760. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.05.012 shu

A novel ball-in-ball hollow oxygen-incorporating cobalt sulfide spheres as high-efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

herx@swu.edu.cn

Received Date: 16 March 2020
Revised Date: 8 April 2020
Accepted Date: 10 May 2020
Available Online: 13 May 2020

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Transition-metal chalcogenides with hollow nanostructure, especially cobalt sulfides, are considered as the most promising non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction. However, it is difficult to synthesize oxygen-containing cobalt sulphides with hollow structure due to the different physical/chemical properties between metal sulfides and metal cobalts. Herein, we report a novel oxygen-containing amorphous cobalt sulfide ball-in-ball hollow spheres (Co-S-O BBHS) synthesized by an anion exchange method. Taking advantage of the ball-in-ball hollow structure, the amorphous Co-S-O BBHS shows superior oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalytic performance with a low overpotential of 285 mV at 10 mA/cm², small Tafel slope of 49.67 mV/dec, high Faraday efficiency of 96%, and satisfied durability. Experiments and DFT calculations demonstrate that the introduction of oxygen and sulfur modulates the electronic structure of Co-S-O BBHS, thus enhancing the adsorption of *O (adsorbed O species on catalyst surface) intermediate, which greatly boosts the catalytic activity towards OER. This work provides a new strategy for controllable synthesis of complex hollow structures of transition-metal chalcogenides for OER.
- Oxygen doped,
- Sulfides,
- Kirkendall effect,
- Oxygen evolution reaction,
- Electrocatalyst
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