Integrating Rh Species with NiFe-Layered Double Hydroxide for Overall Water Splitting

NiFe-layered double hydroxide (LDH) is thought of as a promising bifunctional water-splitting catalyst, owing to its excellent performances for alkaline oxygen evolution reactions (OERs). However, it shows extremely poor activity toward hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs) due to the weak hydrogen ad...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nano letters 2020-01, Vol.20 (1), p.136-144
Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Bowei, Zhu, Chongqin, Wu, Zishan, Stavitski, Eli, Lui, Yu Hui, Kim, Tae-Hoon, Liu, Huan, Huang, Ling, Luan, Xuechen, Zhou, Lin, Jiang, Kun, Huang, Wenyu, Hu, Shan, Wang, Hailiang, Francisco, Joseph S
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Zusammenfassung:NiFe-layered double hydroxide (LDH) is thought of as a promising bifunctional water-splitting catalyst, owing to its excellent performances for alkaline oxygen evolution reactions (OERs). However, it shows extremely poor activity toward hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs) due to the weak hydrogen adsorption. We demonstrated that the integration of Rh species and NiFe-LDH can dramatically improve its HER kinetics without sacrificing the OER performance. The Rh species were initially integrated into NiFe-LDH as oxidized dopants and metallic clusters (< 1 nm). In 1 M KOH electrolyte, an overpotential of 58 mV is needed to catalyze 10 mA cm–2 HER current density. Furthermore, this catalyst only requires 1.46 V to drive an electrolyzer at 10 mA cm–2. A strong interaction between metallic Rh clusters and NiFe hydroxide during the HER process is revealed. The theoretical calculation shows the Rh ions replace Fe ions as the major active sites that are responsible for OERs.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03460