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Xiaoqiang Du, Yangyang Ding, Xiaoshuang Zhang. MOF-derived Zn-Co-Ni sulfides with hollow nanosword arrays for high-efficiency overall water and urea electrolysis. Green Energy&Environment, 2023, 8(3): 798-811. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.09.007
Citation: Xiaoqiang Du, Yangyang Ding, Xiaoshuang Zhang. MOF-derived Zn-Co-Ni sulfides with hollow nanosword arrays for high-efficiency overall water and urea electrolysis. Green Energy&Environment, 2023, 8(3): 798-811. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.09.007
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MOF-derived Zn-Co-Ni sulfides with hollow nanosword arrays for high-efficiency overall water and urea electrolysis

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.09.007

  • a. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China;

  • b. School of Science, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

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This work was financially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21802126).

  • Received date 01 August 2021, Accepted date 29 September 2021, RevRecd date 24 September 2021, Publish date 31 July 2023,
    Abstract
  • Water electrolysis is a promising technology to produce hydrogen but it was severely restricted by the slow oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, we firstly reported an advanced electrocatalyst of MOF-derived hollow Zn-Co-Ni sulfides (ZnS@Co9S8@Ni3S2-1/2, abbreviated as ZCNS-1/2) nanosword arrays (NSAs) with remarkable hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), OER and corresponding water electrolysis performance. To reach a current density of 10 mA cm-2, the cell voltage of assembled ZCNS-1/2//ZCNS-1/2 for urea electrolysis (1.314 V) is 208 mV lower than that for water electrolysis (1.522 V) and stably catalyzed for over 15 h, substantially outperforming the most reported water and urea electrolysis electrocatalysts. Density functional theory calculations and experimental result clearly reveal that the properties of large electrochemical active surface area (ECSA) caused by hollow NSAs and fast charge transfer resulted from the Co9S8@Ni3S2 heterostructure endow the ZCNS-1/2 electrode with an enhanced electrocatalytic performance.

     

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