Heteroatom-Induced Accelerated Kinetics on Nickel Selenide for Highly Efficient Hydrazine-Assisted Water Splitting and Zn-Hydrazine Battery

Abstract

Highlights Ultrathin P and Fe co-doped NiSe2 nanosheets supported on modified Ni foam are synthesized, which shows desirable bifunctional electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)/hydrazine oxidation reaction (HzOR) performance in hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis and Zn-Hz battery. The coexistence of P and Fe heteroatoms induces an accelerated “2 + 2” reaction mechanism with a two-step HER process and a two-step HzOR step.

Keywords

• Water electrolysis
• Hydrogen production
• Hydrazine oxidation
• Bifunctional electrocatalyst
• Heteroatom doping