TY - JOUR
T1 - Highly active and stable electrocatalytic transition metal phosphides (Ni2P and FeP) nanoparticles on porous carbon cloth for overall water splitting at high current density
AU - Shin, Hyun Jung
AU - Park, Sung Woo
AU - Kim, Dong Wan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, South Korea (NRF-2016M3A7B4909318).This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education(2020R1A6A1A03045059).
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Highly active and stable hydrogen production at high current densities is required for practical application of electrocatalytic water splitting. In this study, highly active self-supporting electrodes with excellent durability were designed and developed for high-performance overall water splitting at a high current density. First, a colloid-based dip-coating method using porous carbon cloth (PCC) was introduced to obtain uniformly coated Ni and Fe nanoparticles on a conductive substrate. Then, the desired phase transitions of Ni and Fe to Ni2P and FeP, respectively, proceeded by thermal phosphidation at optimum temperature. The uniformly interconnected Ni2P layers on the PCC substrate (Ni2P@PCC) and FeP layers on the PCC substrate (FeP@PCC) exhibited outstanding oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions, respectively. When each electrode was adopted as an anode and a cathode for the overall water splitting cell, excellent performance was achieved, with a low operational voltage of 1.76 V and high durability for 100 hours at a high current density of 50 mA cm−2.
AB - Highly active and stable hydrogen production at high current densities is required for practical application of electrocatalytic water splitting. In this study, highly active self-supporting electrodes with excellent durability were designed and developed for high-performance overall water splitting at a high current density. First, a colloid-based dip-coating method using porous carbon cloth (PCC) was introduced to obtain uniformly coated Ni and Fe nanoparticles on a conductive substrate. Then, the desired phase transitions of Ni and Fe to Ni2P and FeP, respectively, proceeded by thermal phosphidation at optimum temperature. The uniformly interconnected Ni2P layers on the PCC substrate (Ni2P@PCC) and FeP layers on the PCC substrate (FeP@PCC) exhibited outstanding oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions, respectively. When each electrode was adopted as an anode and a cathode for the overall water splitting cell, excellent performance was achieved, with a low operational voltage of 1.76 V and high durability for 100 hours at a high current density of 50 mA cm−2.
KW - porous carbon cloth
KW - self-supporting electrodes
KW - transition metal phosphides
KW - water splitting
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U2 - 10.1002/er.5833
DO - 10.1002/er.5833
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089735557
VL - 44
SP - 11894
EP - 11907
JO - International Journal of Energy Research
JF - International Journal of Energy Research
SN - 0363-907X
IS - 14
ER -