• 文献标题:   Ni-Co-B nanosheets coupled with reduced graphene oxide towards enhanced electrochemical oxygen evolution
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN JK, ZHANG W, WANG SY, REN YB, LIU QY, SUN YF, TANG L, GUO JX, ZHANG X
  • 作者关键词:   water splitting, oxygen evolution, nicob, nanosheet
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF ALLOYS COMPOUNDS
  • ISSN:   0925-8388 EI 1873-4669
  • 通讯作者地址:   Qingdao Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.10.296
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Oxygen evolution is the vital and limiting reaction in electrochemical water splitting because of the sluggish kinetics and searching efficient nonprecious metal electrocatalysts is a crucial demand to obtain sustainable and clean fuels. Transition metal borides have recently attracted increasing attention as promising catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction. Herein, ultrathin Ni-Co-B nanosheets have been vertically aligned on reduced graphene oxide as exceptionally efficient oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst for the first time. Controlled experiments indicate the critical role of reduced graphene oxide in guiding the formation of Ni-Co-B nanosheet. The catalyst affords a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) at low overpotential of 280 mV, which is better than most of metal boride catalysts reported to date. Stable current output is maintained at 20 mA cm(-2) for at least 60 h. We expect this work will arouse the interests on design of compositing two-dimensional metal borides with graphene, C3N4, and metal dichalcogenides towards applications in energy storage and conversion, electrocatalysis, and sensing. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.