Electrocatalytic water splitting offers a sustainable route for hydrogen production, enabling the clean and renewable alternative energy system of hydrogen economy. The scarcity and high-cost of platinum-group-metal (PGM) materials urge the exploration of high-performance non-PGM electrocatalysts. Herein, a unique hierarchical structure of Ni/V2O3 with extraordinary electrocatalytic performance (e.g., overpotentials as low as 22 mV at 20 mA·cm-2 and 94 mV at 100 mA·cm-2) toward hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline electrolyte (1 M KOH) is reported. The investigation on the hierarchical Ni/V2O3 with a bimodal size-distribution also offers insight of interfacial engineering that only proper Ni/V2O3 interface can effectively improve H2O adsorption, H2O dissociation as well as H adsorption, for an efficient hydrogen production.
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Nano Research 2020, 13 (9): 2407-2412
Published: 17 June 2020
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