High-Valence-State NiO/Co3O4 Nanoparticles on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Oxygen Evolution at Low Overpotential

Muhammad Tahir; Lun Pan; Rongrong Zhang; Yi-cheng Wang; Guoqiang Shen; Imran Aslam; M. A. Qadeer; Nasir Mahmood; Wei Xu; Li Wang; Xiangwen Zhang; Ji-jun Zou

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00691

High-Valence-State NiO/Co3O4 Nanoparticles on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Oxygen Evolution at Low Overpotential

Muhammad Tahir, Lun Pan, Rongrong Zhang, Yi-cheng Wang, Guoqiang Shen, Imran Aslam, M. A. Qadeer, Nasir Mahmood, Wei Xu, Li Wang, Xiangwen Zhang, Ji-jun Zou

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The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a critical role in sustainable energy conversion and storage, but OER is severely hampered owing to the lack of highly efficient catalysts. Here, we report an efficient electrocatalyst, with NiO/Co3O4 nanoparticles decorated on nitrogen-doped carbon (NiO/Co3O4@NC). Abundant high-valence Ni3+ and Co3+ species were observed on the surface of the hybrid due to the strong NC–metal oxide and NiO–Co3O4 interactions. This unique structure leads to excellent OER performance, delivering a very low overpotential of 240 mV@10 mA·cm–2 on glassy carbon and 200 mV@10 mA·cm–2 on Ni foam in KOH and having a turnover frequency (@350 mV overpotential) 6 and 16 times higher than that of IrO2 and RuO2, respectively.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2177-2182
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Energy Letters
Volume	2
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00691
State	Published - Sep 8 2017

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Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Materials Chemistry

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High-Valence-State NiO/Co3O4 Nanoparticles on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Oxygen Evolution at Low Overpotential. / Tahir, Muhammad; Pan, Lun; Zhang, Rongrong; Wang, Yi-cheng; Shen, Guoqiang; Aslam, Imran; Qadeer, M. A.; Mahmood, Nasir; Xu, Wei; Wang, Li; Zhang, Xiangwen; Zou, Ji-jun.

In: ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 2, No. 9, 08.09.2017, p. 2177-2182.

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