Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo 2S4/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting
Abstract
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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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1962019
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0004993; NRF-2017M3D1A1039379; NRF-2020M3H7A1096388; NRF-2021R1A2C2010244; NRF-2020R1C1C1008458
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials Interfaces
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 2196-7350
- Publisher:
- Wiley-VCH
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; bifunctional electrocatalysts; conductive polymers; polyaniline coating; transition metal thiospinel; water electrolysis
Citation Formats
Garain, Samiran, Dang Van, Cu, Choi, Seungwoo, Nguyen Dang, Tru, Ager, Joel W., Nam, Ki Tae, Shin, Hyeyoung, and Lee, Min Hyung. Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo 2S4/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1002/admi.202200649.
Garain, Samiran, Dang Van, Cu, Choi, Seungwoo, Nguyen Dang, Tru, Ager, Joel W., Nam, Ki Tae, Shin, Hyeyoung, & Lee, Min Hyung. Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo 2S4/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202200649
Garain, Samiran, Dang Van, Cu, Choi, Seungwoo, Nguyen Dang, Tru, Ager, Joel W., Nam, Ki Tae, Shin, Hyeyoung, and Lee, Min Hyung. Tue .
"Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo 2S4/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202200649. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1962019.
@article{osti_1962019,
title = {Hierarchical Thiospinel NiCo 2S4/Polyaniline Hybrid Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and Durable Overall Water Splitting},
author = {Garain, Samiran and Dang Van, Cu and Choi, Seungwoo and Nguyen Dang, Tru and Ager, Joel W. and Nam, Ki Tae and Shin, Hyeyoung and Lee, Min Hyung},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1002/admi.202200649},
journal = {Advanced Materials Interfaces},
number = 25,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Tue Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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