Bixbyite-type LnO As Promoters of Metallic Ni for Alkaline Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Jul 5

PMID 35790749

Authors

Hongming Sun

Zhenhua Yan

Caiying Tian

Cha Li

Xin Feng

Rong Huang

Yinghui Lan

Jing Chen

Cheng-Peng Li

Zhihong Zhang

Miao Du

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Abstract

The active-site density, intrinsic activity, and durability of Ni-based catalysts are critical to their application in industrial alkaline water electrolysis. This work develops a kind of promoters, the bixbyite-type lanthanide metal sesquioxides (LnO), which can be implanted into metallic Ni by selective high-temperature reduction to achieve highly efficient Ni/LnO hybrid electrocatalysts toward hydrogen evolution reaction. The screened Ni/YbO catalyst shows the low overpotential (20.0 mV at 10 mA cm), low Tafel slope (44.6 mV dec), and excellent long-term durability (360 h at 500 mA cm), significantly outperforming the metallic Ni and benchmark Pt/C catalysts. The remarkable hydrogen evolution activity and stability of Ni/YbO are attributed to that the YbO promoter with high oxophilicity and thermodynamic stability can greatly enlarge the active-site density, reduce the energy barrier of water dissociation, optimize the free energy of hydrogen adsorption, and avoid the oxidation corrosion of Ni.

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