Citation: LUO Pan, SUN Fang, DENG Ju, XU Haitao, ZHANG Huijuan, WANG Yu. Tree-Like NiS-Ni₃S₂/NF Heterostructure Array and Its Application in Oxygen Evolution Reaction[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2018, 34(12): 1397-1404. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201804022 shu

Tree-Like NiS-Ni₃S₂/NF Heterostructure Array and Its Application in Oxygen Evolution Reaction

The State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment and System Security, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, P. R. China

Corresponding author: ZHANG Huijuan, zhanghj@cqu.edu.cn WANG Yu, wangy@cqu.edu.cn
Received Date: 8 March 2018
Revised Date: 27 March 2018
Accepted Date: 29 March 2018
Available Online: 2 December 2018
Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21373280The project was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (0301005202017), the Thousand Young Talents Program of the Chinese Central Government (0220002102003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21373280, 21403019), the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, China, the Hundred Talents Program at Chongqing University, China (0903005203205), and the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions Project, China (SKLMT-ZZKT-2017M11)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China 0301005202017the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions Project, China SKLMT-ZZKT-2017M11the Thousand Young Talents Program of the Chinese Central Government 0220002102003the Hundred Talents Program at Chongqing University, China 0903005203205the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21403019

In the past decade, fossil fuel resources have been exploited and utilized extensively, which could lead to increasing environmental crises, like greenhouse effect, water pollution, etc. Accordingly, many coping strategies have been put forward, such as water electrolysis, metal-air batteries, fuel cell, etc. Among the strategies mentioned above, water electrolysis is one of the most promising. Water splitting, which can achieve sustainable hydrogen production, is a favorable strategy due to the abundance of water resources. Splitting of water includes two half reactions integral to its operation: hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, its practical application is mainly impeded by the sluggish anode reaction. Simultaneously, noble metal oxides (IrO₂ and RuO₂) and Pt-based catalysts have been recognized as typical OER catalysts; however, the scarcity of noble metals greatly limits their development. Hence, designing an alternative electrocatalyst plays a vital role in the development of OER. However, exploring a highly active electrocatalyst for OER is still difficult. Herein, a miraculous construction of a tree-like array of NiS/Ni₃S₂ heterostructure, which is directly grown on Ni foam substrate, is synthesized via one-step hydrothermal process. Since NiS and Ni₃S₂ have shown great OER performance in previous investigations, this novel NiS-Ni₃S₂/Nikel foam (NF) heterostructure array has tremendous potential as a practical OER catalyst. Upon application in OER, the NiS-Ni₃S₂/NF heterostructure array catalyst exhibits excellent activity and stability. More specifically, this novel tree-like NiS-Ni₃S₂ heterostructure array shows extremely low overpotential (269 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA·cm^-2) and small Tafel slope for OER. It also shows extraordinary stability in alkaline electrolytes. Compared with the Ni₃S₂ nanorods array, the NiS-Ni₃S₂ heterostructure array has a synergistic effect that can improve the OER performance. Due to the secondary structure (Ni₃S₂ nanosheets), the tree-like NiS-Ni₃S₂ array provides more active sites could have higher specific surface area. The greater activity of the NiS/Ni₃S₂ heterostructure may also stem from the tight conjunction between tree-like NiS/Ni₃S₂ and the Ni foam substrate, which is beneficial for electronic transmission. Hydroxy groups can accumulate in large amounts on the surface of the tree-like array, and it also generates some Ni-based oxides that are favorable to OER. Moreover, the synergistic effect of such heterostructure can intrinsically improve the OER activity. The unique tree-like NiS-Ni₃S₂ heterostructure array has great potential as an alternative OER electrocatalyst.
- Heterostructure,
- Tree-like array,
- NiS-Ni₃S₂,
- Oxygen evolution reaction
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