NiPS3 quantum sheets modified nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon with boosted bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic performance

doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2020.04.065

J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2021, Vol. 65: 1-6.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2020.04.065

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NiPS₃ quantum sheets modified nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon with boosted bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic performance

Kai Huang^a, Yuyang Xu^a, Yanpeng Song^b^,^c, Ruyue Wang^a^,^d, Hehe Wei^d, Yuanzheng Long^d, Ming Lei^a^,^*(), Haolin Tang^e^,^*(), Jiangang Guo^c^,^*(), Hui Wu^d^,^*()

^aState Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications & School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
^bBeijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
^cUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
^dState Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
^eState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

Received:2020-03-17 Revised:2020-04-18 Accepted:2020-04-25 Published:2021-02-28 Online:2021-03-15
Contact: Ming Lei,Haolin Tang,Jiangang Guo,Hui Wu
About author:huiwu@tsinghua.edu.cn (H. Wu).
jgguo@iphy.ac.cn (J. Guo),
thln@whut.edu.cn (H. Tang),
* E-mail addresses: mlei@bupt.edu.cn (M. Lei),
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¹These authors contributed equally.

Abstract

Abstract:

Electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) and oxygen evolution reactions (OER) are highly crucial and challenging toward the energy storage and conversion technologies such as fuel cells, metal-air batteries and water electrolysis. To replace noble-metal based catalysts and boost catalytic performance of carbon-based materials, we initially develop the nickel, phosphorus, sulfur and nitrogen co-modified mesoporous carbon (NiPS₃@NMC) as a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst. The performance for ORR (half-wave potential at 0.90 V) and OER (10 mA cm^-2 at 1.48 V) surpasses those of Pt/C coupled with IrO₂ catalysts and most of the non-precious metal based bifunctional electrocatalysts reported in related literature. Moreover, the electrochemical durability is also confirmed by accelerated durability tests (ADTs) and long-term chronoamperometry (CA) tests. We demonstrated that the interfacial effect between NiPS₃ quantum sheets (QSs) and NMC substrates by thermal activation contributed to the enhanced oxygen electrode bifunctionality with more active sites, due to the electrons-donating from nickel, phosphorus and sulfur elements and relatively enriched pyridinic type N. Such excellent overall performance highlights the potential application of NiPS₃ QSs and NMC composites as the materials on energy conversion and storage.

Key words: NiPS₃ quantum sheets, N-doped mesoporous carbon, Bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, Liquid exfoliation, Thermal annealing

Kai Huang, Yuyang Xu, Yanpeng Song, Ruyue Wang, Hehe Wei, Yuanzheng Long, Ming Lei, Haolin Tang, Jiangang Guo, Hui Wu. NiPS₃ quantum sheets modified nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon with boosted bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic performance[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2021, 65: 1-6.

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Fig. 1. Schematic illustration of the preparation of NiPS3@NMC.

Fig. 2. (a, b) TEM and HR-TEM images of NiPS3@NMC; (c) FFT pattern of NiPS3 QSs; (d-j) EDS mapping images of NiPS3@NMC (scale bar: 20 nm).

Fig. 3. (a) XRD patterns of NiPS3 in different forms, (b-h) XPS spectra of annealed NiPS3@NMC compared with the unannealed.

Fig. 4. Electrocatalytic performance of the NiPS3@NMC. (a) LSV curves of ORR and OER activities, the commercial catalysts are IrO2 and Pt/C on OER and ORR performance respectively. (b-d) Tafel plots, Nyquist plots and ADT tests for OER performance. (e-g) Tafel plots, EIS Nyquist plots and ADT tests for OER performance. (h) CA tests for OER performance and ORR performance.

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