Issue 20, 2024

Recent advances in noble metal-free electrocatalysts to achieve efficient alkaline water splitting

Abstract

Electrochemical water splitting is one of the promising approaches for generating hydrogen. Developing noble metal-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is important to achieve efficient water-splitting. This paper reviews the activity, stability, and durability of recently reported noble metal-free electrocatalysts such as oxides/hydroxides/(oxy)hydroxides/layered double hydroxides, sulfides, selenides, phosphides/phosphates, nitrides, carbon-based electrocatalysts, and alloy/B/V/F/Si based electrocatalysts for the HER and OER in an alkaline environment, including the strategies used to achieve high activity and stability/durability at a current density of ≥1000 mA cm−2. Moreover, this paper discusses the various promising strategies including the fabrication of nanostructured, ultrathin, porous, and nanoporous materials, preparing superaerophobic surfaces, construction of hollow structures, core–shell structures, heterostructures, heterojunctions, or Mott–Schottky heterojunctions, designing facile and/or scalable synthesis routes, creating doping and/or vacancies/defects, fabricating catalysts with high valence state sites, designing medium or high-entropy alloys, and tuning the atomic packing structure, electronic structure, or conductivity to enhance the activity and stability for the HER and/or OER.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances in noble metal-free electrocatalysts to achieve efficient alkaline water splitting

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
30 Nov 2023
Accepted
27 Mar 2024
First published
09 Apr 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024,12, 11771-11820

Recent advances in noble metal-free electrocatalysts to achieve efficient alkaline water splitting

M. Jamesh, D. Hu, J. Wang, F. Naz, J. Feng, L. Yu, Z. Cai, J. C. Colmenares, D. Lee, P. K. Chu and H. Hsu, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12, 11771 DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07418H

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