Issue 9, 2015

Hollow mesoporous NiCo2O4 nanocages as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

Abstract

The design and fabrication of efficient and inexpensive electrodes for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is essential for energy-conversion technologies. Herein, high OER activity is achieved using hollow mesoporous NiCo2O4 nanocages synthesized via a Cu2O-templated strategy combined with coordination reaction. The NiCo2O4 nanostructures with a hollow cavity, large roughness and high porosity show only a small overpotential of ∼0.34 V at the current density of 10 mA cm−2 and a Tafel slope of 75 mV per decade, which is comparable with the performance of the best reported transition metal oxide based OER catalysts in the literature. Meanwhile, the positive impacts of the nanocage structure and the Ni incorporation on the electrocatalytic performance are also demonstrated by comparing the OER activities of NiCo2O4 nanocages with Co3O4 nanocages, NiCo2O4 nanoparticles and 20 wt% Pt/C. Moreover, the NiCo2O4 nanocages also manifest superior stability to other materials. All these merits indicate that the hollow mesoporous NiCo2O4 nanocages are promising electrocatalysts for water oxidation.

Graphical abstract: Hollow mesoporous NiCo2O4 nanocages as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Dec 2014
Accepted
19 Jan 2015
First published
19 Jan 2015

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 4148-4154

Author version available

Hollow mesoporous NiCo2O4 nanocages as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

X. Lv, Y. Zhu, H. Jiang, X. Yang, Y. Liu, Y. Su, J. Huang, Y. Yao and C. Li, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 4148 DOI: 10.1039/C4DT03803G

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