Issue 10, 2021

3D porous Ni/NiOx as a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst derived from freeze-dried Ni(OH)2

Abstract

Bifunctional electrocatalytic properties of freeze-dried Ni/NiOx, freeze-dried NiO, and freeze-dried Ni(OH)2 are reported. Freeze-dried Ni(OH)2 was synthesized by the freeze-drying method. Freeze-dried Ni/NiOx and freeze-dried Ni were obtained from the thermal annealing of the material. Both Ni(OH)2 and Ni/NiOx could sustain with freestanding freeze-dried 3D structures without any carbon support. Freeze-dried Ni/NiOx exhibited excellent bifunctional electrocatalytic properties with the ORR performance at 0.62 V (half-wave potential) and OER at 1.47 V (η = 10 mA cm−2). Using freeze-dried metal hydroxides can be considered useful in a wide range of carbon-free applications and can improve the electrocatalytic performance. The bifunctional catalytic activities were calculated to be 0.86, 0.98 and 1.14 V for freeze-dried Ni/NiOx, freeze-dried NiO and freeze-dried Ni(OH)2, respectively. The stacking of 2D sheets into 3D mass seemed to play a vital role behind this excellent bifunctionality of freeze-dried Ni/NiOx. The material reveals possible applications in Zn-air batteries. Besides, the strategy developed herein could be justified to obtain other transition metal-oriented bifunctional electrocatalysts as alternatives to Pt- and Ir/Ru-based expensive benchmark catalysts.

Graphical abstract: 3D porous Ni/NiOx as a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst derived from freeze-dried Ni(OH)2

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Nov. 2020
Accepted
15 Febr. 2021
First published
25 Febr. 2021

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 5530-5535

3D porous Ni/NiOx as a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst derived from freeze-dried Ni(OH)2

Y. Shudo, M. Fukuda, Md. S. Islam, K. Kuroiwa, Y. Sekine, M. R. Karim and S. Hayami, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 5530 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR08034A

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