Citation: Xiaochen Zhang, Hui Xue, Jing Sun, Niankun Guo, Tianshan Song, Jiawen Sun, Yi-Ru Hao, Qin Wang. Synergy of phosphorus vacancies and build-in electric field into NiCo/NiCoP Mott-Schottky integrated electrode for enhanced water splitting performance[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(2): 108519. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108519 shu

Synergy of phosphorus vacancies and build-in electric field into NiCo/NiCoP Mott-Schottky integrated electrode for enhanced water splitting performance

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China

hxue@imu.edu.cn

qinwang@imu.edu.cn

Received Date: 2 March 2023
Revised Date: 4 April 2023
Accepted Date: 26 April 2023
Available Online: 1 May 2023

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Vacancy engineering and Mott-Schottky heterostructure can accelerate charge transfer, regulate adsorption energy of reaction intermediates, and provide additional active sites, which are regarded as valid means for improving catalytic activity. However, the underlying mechanism of synergistic regulation of interfacial charge transfer and optimization of electrocatalytic activity by combining vacancy and Mott-Schottky junction remains unclear. Herein, the growth of a bifunctional NiCo/NiCoP Mott-Schottky electrode with abundant phosphorus vacancies on foam nickel (NF) has been synthesized through continuous phosphating and reduction processes. The obtained NiCo/NiCoP heterojunctions show remarkable OER and HER activities, and the overpotentials for OER and HER are as low as 117 and 60 mV at 10 mA/cm² in 1 mol/L KOH, respectively. Moreover, as both the cathode and anode of overall water splitting, the voltage of the bifunctional NiCo/NiCoP electrocatalyst is 1.44 V at 10 mA/cm², which are far exceeding the benchmark commercial electrodes. DFT theoretical calculation results confirm that the phosphorus vacancies and build-in electric field can effectively accelerate ion and electron transfer between NiCo alloy and NiCoP semiconductor, tailor the electronic structure of the metal centers and lower the Gibbs free energy of the intermediates. Furthermore, the unique self-supported integrated structure is beneficial to facilitate the exposure of the active site, avoid catalyst shedding, thus improving the activity and structural stability of NiCo/NiCoP. This study provides an avenue for the controllable synthesis and performance optimization of Mott-Schottky electrocatalysts.
- Mott-Schottky,
- Build-in electric field,
- Phosphorus vacancies,
- Phosphides,
- Overall water splitting
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