Amorphous Nickel-cobalt Complexes Hybridized with 1T-phase Molybdenum Disulfide Via Hydrazine-induced Phase Transformation for Water Splitting

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 May 10

PMID 28485395

Citations 22

Authors

Haoyi Li

Shuangming Chen

Xiaofan Jia

Biao Xu

Haifeng Lin

Haozhou Yang

Li Song

Xun Wang

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Abstract

Highly active and robust eletcrocatalysts based on earth-abundant elements are desirable to generate hydrogen and oxygen as fuels from water sustainably to replace noble metal materials. Here we report an approach to synthesize porous hybrid nanostructures combining amorphous nickel-cobalt complexes with 1T phase molybdenum disulfide (MoS) via hydrazine-induced phase transformation for water splitting. The hybrid nanostructures exhibit overpotentials of 70 mV for hydrogen evolution and 235 mV for oxygen evolution at 10 mA cm with long-term stability, which have superior kinetics for hydrogen- and oxygen-evolution with Tafel slope values of 38.1 and 45.7 mV dec. Moreover, we achieve 10 mA cm at a low voltage of 1.44 V for 48 h in basic media for overall water splitting. We propose that such performance is likely due to the complete transformation of MoS to metallic 1T phase, high porosity and stabilization effect of nickel-cobalt complexes on 1T phase MoS.

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