Constructing Ultrathin W-Doped NiFe Nanosheets via Facile Electrosynthesis as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Efficient Water Splitting

Ding, Lei; Li, Kui; Xie, Zhiqiang; Yang, Gaoqiang; Yu, Shule; Wang, Weitian; Yu, Haoran; Baxter, Jefferey; Meyer, Harry M.; Cullen, David A.; Zhang, Feng-Yuan

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c01815

Title: Constructing Ultrathin W-Doped NiFe Nanosheets via Facile Electrosynthesis as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Efficient Water Splitting

Journal Article · 26 April 2021 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c01815 · OSTI ID:1817450

Ding, Lei ^[1];

^[1]; Xie, Zhiqiang ^[1]; Yang, Gaoqiang ^[1]; Yu, Shule ^[1]; Wang, Weitian ^[1];

^[2]; Baxter, Jefferey ^[2];

^[2];

^[1]

University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Exploring cost-effective and efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts via simple fabrication strategies is strongly desired for practical water splitting. Herein, an easy and fast one-step electrodeposition process is developed to fabricate W-doped NiFe (NiFeW)-layered double hydroxides with ultrathin nanosheet features at room temperature and ambient pressure as bifunctional catalysts for water splitting. Notably, the NiFeW nanosheets require overpotentials of only 239 and 115 mV for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), respectively, to reach a current density of 10 mA/cm² in alkaline media. Their exceptional performance is further demonstrated in a full electrolyzer configuration with the NiFeW as both anode and cathode catalysts, which achieves a low cell voltage of 1.59 V at 10 mA/cm², 110 mV lower than that of the commercial IrO₂ (anode) and Pt (cathode) catalysts. Moreover, the NiFeW nanosheets are superior to various recently reported bifunctional electrocatalysts. Such remarkable performances mainly ascribe to W doping, which not only effectively modulates the electrocatalyst morphology but also engineers the electronic structure of NiFe hydroxides to boost charge-transfer kinetics for both the OER and HER. Hence, the ultrathin NiFeW nanosheets with an efficient fabrication strategy are promising as bifunctional electrodes for alkaline water electrolyzers.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1817450

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 13, Issue 17; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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