• 文献标题:   3D graphene foam-supported cobalt phosphate and borate electrocatalysts for high-efficiency water oxidation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZENG M, WANG H, ZHAO C, WEI JK, WANG WL, BAI XD
  • 作者关键词:   water splitting, oxygen evolution catalyst, cobalt phosphate borate, graphene foam
  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE BULLETIN
  • ISSN:   2095-9273 EI 2095-9281
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   34
  • DOI:   10.1007/s11434-015-0861-5
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

The cobalt phosphate-/cobalt borate-based oxygen-evolving catalysts (OECs) are the important class of earth-abundant electrocatalysts that can operate with high activity for water splitting under benign conditions. This article reports the integration of cobalt phosphate (Co-Pi) and cobalt borate (Co-Bi) OECs with three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam (GF) for the electrocatalytic water oxidation reaction. The GF showed a unique advantage to serve as a highly conductive 3D support with large capacity for anchoring and loading Co-OECs, thereby facilitating mass and charge transfer due to the large amount of active sites provided by the 3D graphene scaffold. As a result, this integrated system of GF and Co-OECs exhibits synergistically enhanced catalytic activity. The overpotential (eta) of Co-Pi and Co-Bi/graphene catalysts is about 0.390 and 0.315 V in neutral solutions, respectively. Besides, the integrated Co-OECs/graphene catalysts have also exhibited improved and stable oxygen evolution catalytic ability in alkaline solution.