Flexible Co-Mo-N/Au Electrodes with a Hierarchical Nanoporous Architecture as Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

Adv Mater

Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China.

Published: March 2020

Designing highly active and robust electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial for many renewable energy storage and conversion devices. Here, self-supported monolithic hybrid electrodes that are composed of bimetallic cobalt-molybdenum nitride nanosheets vertically aligned on 3D and bicontinuous nanoporous gold (NP Au/CoMoN ) are reported as highly efficient electrocatalysts to boost the sluggish reaction kinetics of water oxidation in alkaline media. By virtue of the constituent CoMoN nanosheets having large accessible CoMoO surface with remarkably enhanced electrocatalytic activity and the nanoporous Au skeleton facilitating electron transfer and mass transport, the NP Au/CoMoN electrode exhibits superior OER electrocatalysis in 1 m KOH, with low onset overpotential (166 mV) and Tafel slope (46 mV dec ). It only takes a low overpotential of 370 mV to reach ultrahigh current density of 1156 mA cm , ≈140-fold higher than free CoMoN nanosheets. The electrocatalytic performance makes it an attractive candidate as the OER catalyst in the water electrolysis.

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