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Bifunctional interstitial phosphorous doping strategy boosts platinum-zinc alloy for efficient ammonia oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction

Tianqi Yu1, Kexin Tan1, Jia Wu1, Yongjin Zou2, Shibin Yin1( )
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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Interstitial phosphorus doping concurrently induces the formation of positively charged Zn and the lattice tension of PtZn alloy, which improves the ammonia oxidation reaction (AOR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity.

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It is still a lack of bifunctional catalysts for ammonia oxidation reaction (AOR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to their different reaction mechanisms. In this work, P is doped into PtZn alloy by calcination with NaH2PO2 as P source to induce the lattice tensile strain of Pt and the electronic interaction between P and Zn, which optimizes the AOR and HER activity simultaneously. The sample with the optimal P content can drive the AOR peak current density of 293.6 mA·mgPt−1, which is almost 2.7 times of Pt. For HER, the overpotential at −10 mA·cm−2 is only 23 mV with Tafel slope of 34.1 mV·dec−1. Furthermore, only 0.59 V is needed to obtain 50 mA·mgPt−1 for ammonia electrolysis under a two-electrode system. Therefore, this work shows an ingenious method to design bifunctional catalysts for ammonia electrolysis.

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PtZn alloyphosphorous dopingammonia oxidation reactionhydrogen evolution reactionbifunctional catalyst

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Nano Research
Volume 17 Issue 3,
March 2024
Pages 1182-1189
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5962-x
Cite this article:
Yu T, Tan K, Wu J, et al. Bifunctional interstitial phosphorous doping strategy boosts platinum-zinc alloy for efficient ammonia oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction. Nano Research, 2024, 17(3): 1182-1189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5962-x
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Received: 30 May 2023
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