Langmuir, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Dec. 25, 2024
The active site density, intrinsic activity, and supporting substrate of cobalt phosphide catalysts are vital to their performance in alkaline water electrolysis. In this work, a CoP/Co2P loaded on cellulose nanofiber-derived carbon aerogels (CP/CCAs) bifunctional electrocatalyst with three-dimensional network heterostructure is illustrated through sequential facile hydrothermal, freeze-drying, phosphorylation processes. derived from nanofibers reveals specific surface area 183.41 m2/g, greatly enriching the sites facilitating electron mass transportation. Besides, interactions between heterogeneous structure modulate electronic enhance activity catalysts. Benefiting these advantages, CP/CCAs-2 demonstrates superior oxygen evolution reaction (η10 mA cm–2 = 277 mV) over benchmark RuO2 moderate hydrogen 63 mV). Density functional theory calculations further reveal that coupling cellulose-derived promotes adsorption activates H–O bond. As result, electrolyzer assembled both as cathode an anode shows low cell voltage 1.59 V at current density 10 good stability. This work provides strategy for electrocatalysts composited green carriers overall splitting.
Language: Английский