Highly stable Ru nanoparticles anchored on NiFe layered double hydroxides as efficient water splitting electrocatalysts

Zhiwei Zhang; Wenxia Chen; Wei Wei; Yaozhen Qian; Meng Wu; Shuyan Hu; Jingyuan Zhang; Xingwang Zhu; Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

Catalysis Communications (Nov 2023)

Highly stable Ru nanoparticles anchored on NiFe layered double hydroxides as efficient water splitting electrocatalysts

Zhiwei Zhang,
Wenxia Chen,
Wei Wei,
Yaozhen Qian,
Meng Wu,
Shuyan Hu,
Jingyuan Zhang,
Xingwang Zhu,
Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

Affiliations

Zhiwei Zhang: Beijing Key Laboratory for Sensors, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
Wenxia Chen: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan D&A Engineering Center of Advanced Battery Materials, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, Henan, China; Corresponding authors.
Wei Wei: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan D&A Engineering Center of Advanced Battery Materials, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, Henan, China
Yaozhen Qian: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan D&A Engineering Center of Advanced Battery Materials, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, Henan, China
Meng Wu: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan D&A Engineering Center of Advanced Battery Materials, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, Henan, China
Shuyan Hu: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan D&A Engineering Center of Advanced Battery Materials, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, Henan, China
Jingyuan Zhang: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan D&A Engineering Center of Advanced Battery Materials, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, Henan, China
Xingwang Zhu: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu, China; Corresponding authors.
Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov: School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 184
p. 106788

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Developing efficient and stable bifunctional electrocatalysts is highly desirable for boosting the energy efficiency of water splitting. Herein, we propose an effective ruthenium nanoparticle anchoring approach to reconstruct NiFe LDH including the customized morphology and configuration of active species. The synthesized NiFe LDH-Ru shows an excellent HER and OER performance with low overpotentials of 52 and 217 mV at 10 mA cm−2, respectively, which exceeds most of the existing HER and OER catalysts. Moreover, the NiFe LDH-Ru catalyst also presents excellent long-term stability. This work provides a new approach for exploring efficient electrocatalysts for clean and renewable energy applications.

Published in Catalysis Communications

ISSN: 1566-7367 (Print); 1873-3905 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/catalysis-communications

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