Citation: Chupeng Luo, Keying Su, Shan Yang, Yujia Liang, Yawen Tang, Xiaoyu Qiu. Ultrathin NiS₂ nanocages with hierarchical-flexible walls and rich grain boundaries for efficient oxygen evolution reaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(5): 109940. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109940 shu

Ultrathin NiS₂ nanocages with hierarchical-flexible walls and rich grain boundaries for efficient oxygen evolution reaction

School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China

tangyawen@njnu.edu.cn

07255@njnu.edu.cn

Received Date: 17 December 2023
Revised Date: 6 March 2024
Accepted Date: 28 April 2024
Available Online: 29 April 2024

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Shape control of nickel sulfide (NiS₂) catalysts is beneficial for boosting their catalytic performances, which is vital to their practical application as a class of advanced non-noble electro-catalysts. However, precisely controlling the formation kinetics and fabricate ultrathin NiS₂ nanostructures still remains challenge. Herein, we provide an injection rate-mediated method to fabricate ultrathin NiS₂ nanocages (HNCs) with hierarchical walls, high-density lattice defects and abundant grain boundaries (GBs). Through mechanism analysis, we find the injection rate determines the concentration of S²⁻ in the steady state and thus control the growth pattern, leading to the formation of NiS₂ HNCs at slow etching kinetics and NiCo PBA@NiS₂ frames at fast etching kinetics, respectively. Benefiting from the ultrathin and hierarchical walls that minimize the mass transport restrictions, the high-density lattice defects and GBs that offer abundant unsaturated reaction sites, the NiS₂ HNCs exhibit obviously enhanced electrocatalytic activity and stability toward OER, with overpotential of 255 mV to reach 10 mA/cm² and a Tafel slope of 27.44 mV/dec, surpassing the performances of NiCo PBA@NiS₂ frames and commercial RuO₂.
- Nickel sulfide,
- Ultrathin nanocages,
- Grain boundaries,
- Kinetics control,
- Oxygen evolution reaction
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