Facile Synthesis of Well-Dispersed NiP on N-Doped Nanomesh Carbon Matrix As a High-Efficiency Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Overview

Journal Nanomaterials (Basel)

Date 2019 Jul 20

PMID 31319520

Citations 2

Authors

Fan Yang

Shuo Huang

Bing Zhang

Liqiang Hou

Yi Ding

Weijie Bao

Chunming Xu

Wang Yang

Yongfeng Li

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Abstract

The development of non-noble metal hydrogen evolution catalysts that can replace Pt is crucial for efficient hydrogen production. Herein, we develop a type of well-dispersed NiP on N-doped nanomesh carbon (NC) electrocatalyst by a facile pyrolysis method, which shows excellent hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalytic performance. It is rather remarkable that the overpotential of NiP/NC prepared under optimal proportion is 108 mV at 10 mA·cm current density in 1 M KOH solution with the tafel slope of 67.3 mV·dec, the catalytic activity has no significant attenuation after 1000 cycles of cyclic voltammetry (CV)method. The hydrogen evolution performance of the electrocatalytic is better than most similar catalysts in alkaline media. The unique mesh structure of the carbon component in the catalyst facilitates the exposure of the active site and reduces the impedance, which improves the efficiency of electron transport as well as ensuring the stability of the hydrogen evolution reaction. In addition, we prove that nitrogen doping and pore structure are also important factors affecting catalytic activity by control experiments. Our results show that N-doped nanomesh carbon, as an efficient support, combined with NiP nanoparticles is of great significance for the development of efficient hydrogen evolution electrodes.

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