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The development of highly efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts with excellent stability at high current densities for overall water splitting is a challenging but urgent goal. Herein, a novel kind of significantly efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts has been elaborately designed through the fabrication of Fe-doped Ni2P nanosheets decorated with CeO2 nanoparticles (Fe-Ni2P/CeO2) grown on Ni foam. It reveals the existence of electron transfer from Ni2+ to Ce4+, resulting in an increase of Ni3+, of which the strong Lewis acidity promotes the adsorption of OH- and thus facilitates the formation and conversion of oxygen-related intermediates during the water splitting process. The resulting catalyst shows outstanding electrocatalytic activities for both oxygen evolution reaction (OER) (r20 = 190 mV, r1000 = 260 mV) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) (r20 = 78 mV, r1000 = 292 mV). Moreover, when utilized for overall water splitting, the Fe-Ni2P/CeO2 requires very low voltages of 1.52 V and 2.88 V to achieve current densities of 20 mA cm-2 and 1000 mA cm-2, respectively, outperforming the Pt/C || RuO2 electrolyzer. Importantly, the as-designed electrolyzer exhibits exceptional durability at a high current density of 1000 mA cm-2. This work has demonstrated an effective strategy for designing non-precious metal heterojunctions with abundant electrocatalytic active sites to drive efficient overall water splitting.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
ISSN: 0925-8388
Year: 2024
Volume: 981
5 . 8 0 0
JCR@2023
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