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Co3O4?C@FeMoP on nickel foam as bifunctional electrocatalytic electrode for high-performance alkaline water splitting

Exploring low-cost, highly efficient, and sustainable non-precious electrocatalysts for electrolytic H2 generation is driving research for the sustainable green urban development. Herein, we present a simple synthetic approach, through a two-step process, to prepare the bifunctional electrode of Co3O4?[email protected] hybrid micro rods/nanosheets anchored on nickel foam (NF), in which the Co3O4?C microrods grown on NF surface are decorated by FeMoP nanosheet layers, which is directly grown through a simple hydrothermal followed by post-phosphorization processes. The obtained hybrid hierarchical Co3O4?[email protected]/NF shows a significant enhancement in the electrocatalytic activities of oxygen/hydrogen evolution reactions (OER/HER) in comparison to the individual Co3O4?C and FeMoP nanostructures, thanks to more heterointerface active sites provided by FeMoP nanostructures with three-dimensional (3-D) layered architectures. The Co3O4?[email protected]/NF catalyst exhibits a relatively small overpotential of 200?mV vs. RHE for OER to achieve 20?mA/cm2 and 123?mV vs RHE at 10?mA/cm2 for HER along with excellent durability in alkaline electrolytes. We demonstrate the bifunctional electrocatalytic electrode as the electrolyzer for the generation of H2 via water splitting at small applied voltage of 1.61?V to achieve 10?mA/cm2 and good stability for 24-h continuous running.

» Author: Ahmed Zaki Alhakemy, Nangan Senthilkumar, Yichun Ding, Junwei Li, Zhenhai Wen

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