3D self-standing grass-like cobalt phosphide vesicles-decorated nanocones grown on Ni-foam as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, PR China;2. College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, PR China;1. Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, PR China;2. Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA;1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, PR China;2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300071, PR China |
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Abstract: | The growing hydrogen consumption has greatly promoted the development of efficient, stable and low-cost electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Constructing functional nanostructures is an efficacious strategy to optimize catalytic performance. Herein, we present a feasible route to fabricate distinctive 3D grass-like cobalt phosphide nanocones clad with mini-vesicles on the hierarchically porous Ni foam, which can directly serve as a binder-free electrocatalyst with superior catalytic activity and durability in HER. Thanks to its distinctive 3D microstructure featured with favourable pore-size distribution, abundant active sites provided by mini-vesicles and rapid electron transfer with the assistance of Ni foam, the as-grown grass-like CoP/NF electrocatalyst has shown a favourable overpotential in an acidic solution with an onset overpotential of ∼35 mV, an overpotential of 71 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm−2, reduced by 60 mV in comparison with that realized by urchin-like CoP/NF nanoprickles. Moreover, it has exhibited an excellent HER activity in the alkaline medium, with an overpotential of 117 mV at 10 mA cm−2, a Tafel slope of 63.0 mV dec−1 and a long-term electrochemical durability. |
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Keywords: | Cobalt phosphide Nanocones Mini-vesicles Hydrogen evolution reaction Electrocatalyst |
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