• 文献标题:   Al, Fe-codoped CoP nanoparticles anchored on reduced graphene oxide as bifunctional catalysts to enhance overall water splitting
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZAI SF, ZHOU YT, YANG CC, JIANG Q
  • 作者关键词:   water splitting, catalysts design, dft simulation, codoping, cobalt phosphide
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1385-8947 EI 1873-3212
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  • 被引频次:   37
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.cej.2020.127856 EA JUN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Rational design of high-efficiency and low-cost catalysts for water splitting electrolysis plays an important role in clean energy conversion technology. Herein, density functional theory simulations indicate that the codoping of p-metal Al and d-metal Fe could reasonably regulate the electronic structure of CoP, resulting in an optimal H adsorption free energy. Based on this finding, we successfully prepared a bifunctional catalyst of Al, Fe-codoped CoP nanoparticles/reduced graphene oxide, which displays superior HER performance in a wide pH range and OER performance in the alkaline medium with high H2/O2 evolution rates and Faradaic efficiencies. For overall water splitting, such a catalyst exhibits excellent activity (a low cell voltage of 1.66 V at 10 mA cm-2) and durability. The strategy of synergistic modulation of electronic structure by introducing different-type dopants into a hybrid proposed in this work is beneficial for designing novel electrocatalysts for applications in energyconversion devices.