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Vol. 16 (2024)

Defect Engineering and Carbon Supporting to Achieve Ni-Doped CoP3 with High Catalytic Activities for Overall Water Splitting

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-024-01471-9
Daowei Zha
Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China
Ruoxing Wang
Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China
Shijun Tian
Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China
Zhong‑Jie Jiang
Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, Guangdong Engineering and Technology Research Center for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, People’s Republic of China
Zejun Xu
Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China
Chu Qin
Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China
Xiaoning Tian
Department of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo 315211, People’s Republic of China
Zhongqing Jiang
Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Zhongqing Jiang

zhongqingjiang@zstu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 16 (2024), Article Number: 250

Abstract

This work reports the use of defect engineering and carbon supporting to achieve metal-doped phosphides with high activities and stabilities for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media. Specifically, the nitrogen-doped carbon nanofiber-supported Ni-doped CoP3 with rich P defects (Pv·) on the carbon cloth (p-NiCoP/NCFs@CC) is synthesized through a plasma-assisted phosphorization method. The p-NiCoP/NCFs@CC is an efficient and stable catalyst for the HER and the OER. It only needs overpotentials of 107 and 306 mV to drive 100 mA cm−2 for the HER and the OER, respectively. Its catalytic activities are higher than those of other catalysts reported recently. The high activities of the p-NiCoP/NCFs@CC mainly arise from its peculiar structural features. The density functional theory calculation indicates that the Pv· richness, the Ni doping, and the carbon supporting can optimize the adsorption of the H atoms at the catalyst surface and promote the strong electronic couplings between the carbon nanofiber-supported p-NiCoP with the surface oxide layer formed during the OER process. This gives the p-NiCoP/NCFs@CC with the high activities for the HER and the OER. When used in alkaline water electrolyzers, the p-NiCoP/NCFs@CC shows the superior activity and excellent stability for overall water splitting.


Highlights:
1 Plasma-assisted phosphorization has been used to prepare defect-rich metal phosphides.
2 The p-NiCoP/NCF@CC shows high activities and excellent stability for the hydrogen evolution reaction and the oxygen evolution reaction.
3 The p-NiCoP/NCF@CC shows great potential for overall water splitting.

Keywords

Plasma Electrocatalysis Hydrogen evolution reaction Oxygen evolution reaction Water splitting
Zha, Daowei, Ruoxing Wang, Shijun Tian, Zhong‑Jie Jiang, Zejun Xu, Chu Qin, Xiaoning Tian, and Zhongqing Jiang. 2024. “Defect Engineering and Carbon Supporting to Achieve Ni-Doped CoP3 With High Catalytic Activities for Overall Water Splitting”. Nano-Micro Letters 16 (July):250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-024-01471-9.
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