Elaborately tailored NiCo2O4 for highly efficient overall water splitting and urea electrolysis

GREEN CHEMISTRY(2023)

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For effective overall water splitting (OWS) in alkaline media, a novel Ru-doped bimetal oxide (Ru-NiCo2O4 ) catalyst deposited onto a conductive nickel foam (NF) is fabricated by a multi-step hydrothermal reaction, ion exchange, and subsequent annealing process. The distinctive 3D nanoneedle-like arrays not only provide an even distribution of Ru decorated NiCo2O4, but also expose additional active sites, facilitating electron transport and improving reaction kinetics. Besides, density functional theory (DFT) studies elucidate the electronic structure regulation in Ru-NiCo2O4 and the modification of the d-band center optimizes H* adsorption energy, which considerably increased the hydrogen production efficiency. Considering the aforementioned advantages, the as-prepared Ru-NiCo2O4 electrocatalyst exhibits greatly improved catalytic activity, requiring only 25 mV and 249 mV at 10 mA cm(-2) for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), respectively, as well as robust stability. Amazingly, the Ru-NiCo2O4 electrode in a two-electrode alkaline electrolyzer only needs 1.55 V to produce 10 mA cm(-2), making it more efficient than the commercial RuO2||Pt/C electrode (1.62 V). More importantly, 0.33 M urea only needs a low voltage of 1.427 V to drive the urine-mediated electrolysis, which is about 123 mV less than the urea-free electrolysis cell. This work presents an effective electronic structure engineering approach based on heteroatom doping that may be extended to design and fabricate novel high-performance OWS catalysts.
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urea electrolysis,efficient overall water splitting,nico<sub>2</sub>o<sub>4</sub>
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