Developing high-performance noble metal-free and free-standing catalytic electrodes are crucial for overall water splitting. Here, nickel sulfide(NiS) and nickel selenide(Ni Se) are synthesized on nickel foam(NF...
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Developing high-performance noble metal-free and free-standing catalytic electrodes are crucial for overall water splitting. Here, nickel sulfide(NiS) and nickel selenide(Ni Se) are synthesized on nickel foam(NF) with a one-pot solvothermal method and directly used as free-standing electrodes for efficiently catalyzing hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) and oxygen evolution reaction(OER) in alkaline *** virtue of abundant active sites, the NiS/NF and the NiS e/NF electrodes can deliver a current density of 10 m A cmat only 123 m V, 137 m V for HER and 222 m V, 271 m V for OER. Both of the hierarchical NiS/NF and Ni Se/NF electrodes can serve as anodes and cathodes in electrocatalytic overall watersplitting and can achieve a current density of 10 m A cmwith an applied voltage of.59 V and 1.69 V,respectively. The performance of as-obtained NiS/NF||NiS/NF is even close to that of the noble metalbased Pt/C/NF||IrO/NF system.
Design and fabrication of novel optimized electrode materials are important for the development of new batteries for energy storage applications. Herein, we report on a hierarchical bulk electrode material with a tail...
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Design and fabrication of novel optimized electrode materials are important for the development of new batteries for energy storage applications. Herein, we report on a hierarchical bulk electrode material with a tailored nanostructure that which consists of three components: a NH 4 V 4 O 10 nanowire as an active skeleton, an intermediate polymer layer (polypyrrole, PPy), and a metal oxide layer (MnO 2 ) as the outside shell. The NH 4 V 4 O 10 -PPy-MnO 2 nanowires exhibit present higher capacitance than that of the simple NH 4 V 4 O 10 -PPy [email protected] or NH 4 V 4 O 10 nanowires. The structure of double shells of combined PPy and MnO 2 is a key factor in enhancing their electrochemical performance including high specific capacitance and excellent cycling stability. Our V-based [email protected] @shell structure can serve as freestanding, compressible electrodes for various energy devices.
LiCoO 2 is used as a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, however, cationic/anodic-redox-induced unstable phase transitions, oxygen escape, and side reactions with electrolytes always occur when charging LiCoO ...
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LiCoO 2 is used as a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, however, cationic/anodic-redox-induced unstable phase transitions, oxygen escape, and side reactions with electrolytes always occur when charging LiCoO 2 to voltages higher than 4.35 V, resulting in severe capacity fade. Reported here is Mg-pillared LiCoO 2 . Dopant Mg ions, serving as pillars in the Li-slab of LiCoO 2 , prevent slab sliding in a delithiated state, thereby suppressing unfavorable phase transitions. Moreover, the resulting Li-Mg mixing structure at the surface of Mg-pillared LiCoO 2 is beneficial for eliminating the cathode-electrolyte interphase overgrowth and phase transformation in the close-to-surface region. Mg-pillared LiCoO 2 exhibits a high capacity of 204 mAh g −1 at 0.2 C and an enhanced capacity retention of 84 % at 1.0 C over 100 cycles within the voltage window of 3.0–4.6 V. In contrast, pristine LiCoO 2 has a capacity retention of 14 % within the same voltage window.
Piezocatalysis, converting mechanical vibration into chemical energy, has emerged as a promising candidate for water‐splitting technology. However, the efficiency of the hydrogen production is quite limited. We herei...
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Piezocatalysis, converting mechanical vibration into chemical energy, has emerged as a promising candidate for water‐splitting technology. However, the efficiency of the hydrogen production is quite limited. We herein report well‐defined 10 nm BaTiO 3 nanoparticles (NPs) characterized by a large electro‐mechanical coefficient which induces a high piezoelectric effect. Atomic‐resolution high angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF‐STEM) and scanning probe microscopy (SPM) suggests that piezoelectric BaTiO 3 NPs display a coexistence of multiple phases with low energy barriers and polarization anisotropy which results in a high electro‐mechanical coefficient. Landau free energy modeling also confirms that the greatly reduced polarization anisotropy facilitates polarization rotation. Employing the high piezoelectric properties of BaTiO 3 NPs, we demonstrate an overall water‐splitting process with the highest hydrogen production efficiency hitherto reported, with a H 2 production rate of 655 μmol g −1 h −1 , which could rival excellent photocatalysis system. This study highlights the potential of piezoelectric catalysis for overall water splitting.
Taking the advantage of hierarchical nanostructures into consideration,herein a facile and template free approach to achieve hierarchical microspheres assembled from theα-FeO nanosheet was *** followed freeze-drying ...
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Taking the advantage of hierarchical nanostructures into consideration,herein a facile and template free approach to achieve hierarchical microspheres assembled from theα-FeO nanosheet was *** followed freeze-drying treatment is employed to realize the
In this study, a method of recycling spent coffee grounds (SCG) is introduced. The SCG was dried and crushed into micron-sized coffee particles. The coffee particles could be used to prepared polyurethane (PU) films w...
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A target Skyrmion is a flux-closed spin texture that has twofold degeneracy and is promising as a binary state in next generation universal memories. Although its formation in nanopatterned chiral magnets has been pre...
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A target Skyrmion is a flux-closed spin texture that has twofold degeneracy and is promising as a binary state in next generation universal memories. Although its formation in nanopatterned chiral magnets has been predicted, its observation has remained challenging. Here, we use off-axis electron holography to record images of target Skyrmions in a 160-nm-diameter nanodisk of the chiral magnet FeGe. We compare experimental measurements with numerical simulations, demonstrate switching between two stable degenerate target Skyrmion ground states that have opposite polarities and rotation senses, and discuss the observed switching mechanism.
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