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Hierarchical Interconnected NiMoN with Large Specific Surface Area and High Mechanical Strength for Efficient and Stable Alkaline Water/Seawater Hydrogen Evolution

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Minghui Ning
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Yu Wang
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Libo Wu
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Lun Yang
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Zhaoyang Chen
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Shaowei Song
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Yan Yao
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Jiming Bao
陈硕 (Shuo Chen)
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Zhifeng Ren *
DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01129-ydelete
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NiMo-based nanostructures are among the most active hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts under an alkaline environment due to their strong water dissociation ability. However, these nanostructures are vulnerable to the destructive effects of H-2 production, especially at industry-standard current densities. Therefore, developing a strategy to improve their mechanical strength while maintaining or even further increasing the activity of these nanocatalysts is of great interest to both the research and industrial communities. Here, a hierarchical interconnected NiMoN (HW-NiMoN-2h) with a nanorod-nanowire morphology was synthesized based on a rational combination of hydrothermal and water bath processes. HW-NiMoN-2h is found to exhibit excellent HER activity due to the accomodation of abundant active sites on its hierarchical morphology, in which nanowires connect free-standing nanorods, concurrently strengthening its structural stability to withstand H-2 production at 1 A cm(-2). Seawater is an attractive feedstock for water electrolysis since H-2 generation and water desalination can be addressed simultaneously in a single process. The HER performance of HW-NiMoN-2h in alkaline seawater suggests that the presence of Na+ ions interferes with the reation kinetics, thus lowering its activity slightly. However, benefiting from its hierarchical and interconnected characteristics, HW-NiMoN-2h is found to deliver outstanding HER activity of 1 A cm(-2) at 130 mV overpotential and to exhibit excellent stability at 1 A cm(-2) over 70 h in 1 M KOH seawater.
Keywords:
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
Nanoarchitecture
NiMo catalysts
Direct seawater electrolysis
Nanostructural stability
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