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Boosting hydrogen production via urea electrolysis on an amorphous nickel phosphide/graphene hybrid structure

Tong, Yun
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Chen, Lu  
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Dyson, Paul J.  
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August 5, 2021
Journal Of Materials Science

Overall urea electrolysis has favorable thermodynamic properties and can complement traditional water splitting by simultaneously purifying urea-rich waste streams. However, the kinetics of the reaction is slow and more efficient catalysts are required. In this work, we describe a facile way to fabricate amorphous nickel phosphides on graphene nanosheets (a-Ni2P/G), which shows high efficient performance for overall urea electrolysis. The a-Ni2P/G catalyst has abundant surface area for abundant catalytic active sites and high proportion of Ni3+ active sites, realizing a superior intrinsic activity for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and urea oxidation reaction (UOR). Impressively, the a-Ni2P/G catalyst requires only much lower potentials of 1.28 V and - 0.1 V for UOR and HER at 10 mA cm(-2). The assembled a-Ni2P/G parallel to a-Ni2P/G electrolyzer needs a small cell voltage of 1.39 V to deliver the current density of 10 mA cm(-2). This work highlights a promising pathway to develop a cost-efficient catalyst for energy-saving H-2 generation combined with waste water purification.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s10853-021-06391-2
Web of Science ID

WOS:000681602800001

Author(s)
Tong, Yun
Chen, Lu  
Dyson, Paul J.  
Fei, Zhaofu  
Date Issued

2021-08-05

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
Journal Of Materials Science
Volume

56

Start page

17709

End page

17720

Subjects

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Materials Science

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oxygen evolution

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active-sites

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oxidation

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electrocatalyst

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catalysts

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electrooxidation

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heterostructure

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nanoparticles

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