Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo 2S4/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting

Garain, Samiran; Dang Van, Cu; Choi, Seungwoo; Nguyen Dang, Tru; Ager, Joel W.; Nam, Ki Tae; Shin, Hyeyoung; Lee, Min Hyung

doi:10.1002/admi.202200649

Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo ₂S₄/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting

Journal Article · Tue Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Advanced Materials Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202200649· OSTI ID:1962019

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Kyung Hee Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

The development of a nonprecious, stable, and highly effective electrocatalyst for decomposition of water into oxygen and hydrogen is vitally important for sustainable energy conversion, but it still remains challenging to replace the noble metal electrocatalysts with more economically viable alternatives. Here, in this paper, a polyaniline (PANI) decorated hierarchical nickel cobalt thiospinel (NiCo₂S₄) hybrid catalyst (NCS-P) has been developed that shows enhanced dual catalytic activity for both the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) compared to pristine NiCo₂S₄ (NCS). Benefiting from the conductive PANI coating, the hierarchical NCS-P nanostructure exhibits outstanding electrocatalytic activity in alkaline solution with low overpotentials of 273 ± 3 and 77 ± 4 mV at 10 mA cm^-2 and low Tafel slopes of 42.2 and 68.5 mV dec^-1 for OER and HER, respectively, which are better than those of the benchmark noble-metal-based RuO₂ and Pt/C.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0004993

OSTI ID:: 1962019

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Interfaces Journal Issue: 25 Vol. 9; ISSN 2196-7350

Publisher:: Wiley-VCHCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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