Issue 3, 2019

N-Doped porous carbon nanosheets decorated with graphitized carbon layer encapsulated Co9S8 nanoparticles: an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for the OER and ORR

Abstract

Electrocatalysts with highly effective activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are considered to be the key factor of renewable energy technologies. Herein, we designed and synthesized bi-functional electrocatalyst Co9S8/C nanosheets (NSs) by reducing the Co3O4/C NS precursor with sodium sulfide. From the structural characterization, Co9S8 is anchored on the graphitized carbon NSs homogeneously. According to the electrochemical measurements, the Co9S8/C NSs show excellent electrocatalytic activity towards both the ORR (Eonset = 0.892 V vs. RHE and E1/2 is 0.778 V vs. RHE) and OER (Eonset = 1.50 V vs. RHE and the overpotential is 0.434 V vs. RHE at 10 mA cm−2) in 0.1 M KOH solution. In the ORR, Co9S8/C catalyzes through a 4-electron process like the commercial Pt-based catalyst. In addition, the Co9S8/C NSs show great long-term stability. The Co9S8/C NSs show excellent catalytic performance due to the rich active sites and two-dimensional sheet structure. The developed strategy offers an effective method for preparing bi-functional electrocatalysts for both the OER and ORR.

Graphical abstract: N-Doped porous carbon nanosheets decorated with graphitized carbon layer encapsulated Co9S8 nanoparticles: an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for the OER and ORR

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Sep 2018
Accepted
13 Oct 2018
First published
17 Oct 2018

Nanoscale, 2019,11, 901-907

N-Doped porous carbon nanosheets decorated with graphitized carbon layer encapsulated Co9S8 nanoparticles: an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for the OER and ORR

L. Li, L. Song, H. Guo, W. Xia, C. Jiang, B. Gao, C. Wu, T. Wang and J. He, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 901 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR07179A

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