With the increasing environmental pollution and the depletion of non-renewable resources,it is very important for developing clean and renewable energy.The technology of water-splitting is an efficient and pollution-free method for producing hydrogen and oxygen,which is via two processes of hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)and oxygen evolution reaction(OER).However,the commercial precious metal catalyst has expensive cost and low abundance on earth.Therefore,it is very meaningful for developing the non-noble metal electrocatalysts with lower prices,high activity and stable performance.In this study,a series of nanoflower bifunctional electrocatalysts(CuSe2-CoSe2(1∶1)NF,CuSe2-CoSe2(3:1)NF and CuSe2-CoSe2(1∶3)NF)were successfully prepared by hydrothermal method.The structure,morphology,elemental composition and valence state of CuSe2-CoSe2NF catalyst were analyzed by a series of characterizations.The result shows that the existence of synergistic between CoSe2 and CuSe2 in CuSe2-CoSe2NF bimetallic selenide catalyst can accelerate the electron transfer and enhance the water-splitting performance.In addition,the CuSe2-CoSe2NF catalyst with nanoflower structure has large specific surface area(808 m2/g),which can expose more active sites and further increase the electrochemical performance.Consequently,the CuSe2-CoSe2(1:1)NF catalyst needs 42 and 204 mV overpotentials for HER and OER at 10 mA·cm-2current density in 1 mol/L KOH electrolyte.The stability could maintain 100 h.The CuSe2-CoSe2(1:1)NF performance is close to that of commercial Pt/C and RuO2.
关键词
硒化物/电解水析氢/电解水析氧/双功能催化剂/纳米花状/双活性位点
Key words
selenide/hydrogen evolution by electrolysis of water/oxygen evolution by electrolysis of water/bifunctional catalyst/nanoflower/dual active site
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