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Recycling spent water treatment adsorbents for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation reaction
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Elsevier
Heavy metal contaminated spent adsorbents are of great environmental concern due to their hazardous effects and large-scale accumulation in the natural environment. Converting massive spent adsorbents into efficient electrocatalysts with a facile strategy can address the challenge of growing energy demand and achieving carbon neutral goal. Herein, we demonstrated a "spent adsorbents to heterostructured electrocatalysts" conversion strategy based on the "waste-to-wealth" principle. Via a facile boriding process, the metal ions laden biocharbased spent adsorbents (SA) have been totally transformed into magnetic metal borides/biochar heterostructures, which exhibit excellent activities towards oxygen evolution reaction. The optimized NiCuFeB/SA catalyst takes a low overpotential of 251 mV to drive a current density of 10 mA cm(-2), outperforming many Ni/Fe-based catalysts synthesized from commercial material resources. Comprehensive analyses suggest the high catalytic efficiency mainly attributes to the porous biochar confined well-dispersed nano-sized metallic borides, the in-situ evolved active metal (oxy)hydroxides, favourable charge-transfer kinetics, as well as the heterostructure and amorphous feature. This work offers a general strategy to efficiently reutilize the spent metal bearing biochar-based adsorbents, which can be extended to advanced energy applications-oriented reutilization of other metal-contaminated solid wastes in an economically and environmental-benign manner.
Spent biochar adsorbentsBoridesElectrocatalystsWaste reutilizationHeavy metal adsorptionOXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONWASTE-WATERADSORPTIONBIOCHAR
Chen, Zhijie、Zheng, Renji、Wei, Wenfei、Wei, Wei、Zou, Wensong、Li, Jing、Ni, Bing-Jie、Chen, Hong
NSTL
Elsevier
