Ultrathin High Surface Area Nickel Boride (NixB) Nanosheets as Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution

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dc.contributor.authorMasa, Justus
dc.contributor.authorSinev, Ilya
dc.contributor.authorMistry, Hemma
dc.contributor.authorVentosa, Edgar
dc.contributor.authorSchuhmann, Wolfgang
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-16T08:39:48Z
dc.date.available2022-11-16T08:39:48Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe overriding obstacle to mass production of hydrogen from water as the premium fuel for powering our planet is the frustratingly slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Additionally, inadequate understanding of the key barriers of the OER is a hindrance to insightful design of advanced OER catalysts. This study presents ultrathin amorphous high-surface area nickel boride (NixB) nanosheets as a low-cost, very efficient and stable catalyst for the OER for electrochemical water splitting. The catalyst affords 10 mA cm−2 at 0.38 V overpotential during OER in 1.0 m KOH, reducing to only 0.28 V at 20 mA cm−2 when supported on nickel foam, which ranks it among the best reported nonprecious catalysts for oxygen evolution. Operando X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy measurements reveal prevalence of NiOOH, as well as Ni-B under OER conditions, owing to a Ni-B core@nickel oxyhydroxide shell (Ni-B@NiOxH) structure, and increase in disorder of the NiOxH layer, thus revealing important insight into the transient states of the catalyst during oxygen evolution.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMasa, J., Sinev, I., Mistry, H., Ventosa, E., De La Mata, M., Arbiol, J., ... & Schuhmann, W. (2017). Ultrathin high surface area nickel boride (NixB) nanosheets as highly efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution. Advanced Energy Materials, 7(17), 1700381.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/5261
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAdvanced Energy Materialsen_US
dc.subjectnickel boride, water oxidation, water splitting, hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution, XAFSen_US
dc.titleUltrathin High Surface Area Nickel Boride (NixB) Nanosheets as Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolutionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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