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Amorphous nickel-cobalt complexes hybridized with 1T-phase molybdenum disulfide via hydrazine-induced phase transformation for water splitting

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  • Haoyi Li

    (Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University)

  • Shuangming Chen

    (National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Xiaofan Jia

    (University of Virginia)

  • Biao Xu

    (Iowa State University)

  • Haifeng Lin

    (Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University)

  • Haozhou Yang

    (Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University)

  • Li Song

    (National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Xun Wang

    (Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University)

Abstract

Highly active and robust eletcrocatalysts based on earth-abundant elements are desirable to generate hydrogen and oxygen as fuels from water sustainably to replace noble metal materials. Here we report an approach to synthesize porous hybrid nanostructures combining amorphous nickel-cobalt complexes with 1T phase molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) via hydrazine-induced phase transformation for water splitting. The hybrid nanostructures exhibit overpotentials of 70 mV for hydrogen evolution and 235 mV for oxygen evolution at 10 mA cm−2 with long-term stability, which have superior kinetics for hydrogen- and oxygen-evolution with Tafel slope values of 38.1 and 45.7 mV dec−1. Moreover, we achieve 10 mA cm−2 at a low voltage of 1.44 V for 48 h in basic media for overall water splitting. We propose that such performance is likely due to the complete transformation of MoS2 to metallic 1T phase, high porosity and stabilization effect of nickel-cobalt complexes on 1T phase MoS2.

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  • Haoyi Li & Shuangming Chen & Xiaofan Jia & Biao Xu & Haifeng Lin & Haozhou Yang & Li Song & Xun Wang, 2017. "Amorphous nickel-cobalt complexes hybridized with 1T-phase molybdenum disulfide via hydrazine-induced phase transformation for water splitting," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-11, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms15377
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15377
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    1. Omnia Samy & Amine El Moutaouakil, 2021. "A Review on MoS 2 Energy Applications: Recent Developments and Challenges," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-20, July.

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