Amorphous Ni-Fe double hydroxide hollow nanocubes enriched with oxygen vacancies as efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation catalysts

Tian Tian; Min Zheng; Junqi Lin; Xiangyu Meng; Yong Ding

doi:10.1039/c8cc08511k

Amorphous Ni-Fe double hydroxide hollow nanocubes enriched with oxygen vacancies as efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation catalysts

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jan 25;55(8):1044-1047. doi: 10.1039/c8cc08511k. Epub 2019 Jan 4.

Authors

Tian Tian¹, Min Zheng¹, Junqi Lin¹, Xiangyu Meng¹, Yong Ding²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China and State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China. dingyong1@lzu.edu.cn.

PMID: 30608083
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc08511k

Abstract

In this study, we present an ingenious design of Fe-modulated nickel hydroxide hollow nanocubes with a systematically engineered structure. The Ni_0.75Fe_0.25(OH)_x sample exhibits good O₂ evolution activity, which should be attributed to electronic modulation and abundant oxygen vacancies. Based on Pourbaix slope analysis, a two proton-one electron transfer is discovered in the amorphous Ni_0.75Fe_0.25(OH)_x catalyst. Ni_0.75Fe_0.25(OH)_x exhibits an enhanced performance for the electrocatalytic OER with a low overpotential of 310 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm^-2.