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Enhancing hydrogen evolution through urea electrolysis over Co-doped Ni-P-O film on nickel foam

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? 2022 Elsevier B.V.A Co-doped Ni-P-O film supported on nickel foam is successfully prepared. It exhibits high activity toward urea oxidation reaction (UOR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Regarding UOR, the onset potential of Ni-P-O is reduced by the introduction of Co and gradually decreases with the incremental of Co content in the film ascribed to the reduction of conversion potential of Ni2+/Ni3+. Concerning HER, the incorporated Co in Ni-P-O film not only increases the amounts of active sites, but also boost the synergetic effect on water dissociation and hydrogen desorption. Particularly, the optimum activity of Ni-P-O is achieved by the introduction of an 8% cobalt source (8% Co:Ni-P-O/NF), which offers the highest activity with the lowest overpotential of 94 mV and Tafel slope of 46.2 mV·dec?1. Furthermore, the efficiency of hydrogen generation is further improved by urea-assistance over the electrolyzer coupled with 8% Co:Ni-P-O/NF electrode. Only 1.481 V is needed to afford 20 mA·cm?2 in urea-mediated electrolysis cell, much lower than that for urea-free electrolyte with 1.689 V.

AmorphousHydrogen evolution reactionOxidesUrea oxidation reactionWater dissociationWater splitting

Cao J.、Zheng Y.、Pan J.、Wang J.、Li C.、Jiao Z.、Zhu R.、Luo F.、Wei Q.、Long H.

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Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation of Zhejiang Province and Key Laboratory of ATMMT ministry of Education Department of Physics Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

School of Materials Science and Engineering State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy Central South University

School of Materials Science and Hydrogen Energy Foshan University

2022

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

EISCI
ISSN:0925-8388
年,卷(期):2022.914
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