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Preparation of Carbon Nanosheets at Room Temperature
Published on: March 8, 2016
Flexible vanadium-doped Ni2P nanosheet arrays grown on carbon cloth for an efficient hydrogen evolution reaction
Lulu Wen1, Jie Yu, Changchang Xing
1Key Lab of Materials Physics, Anhui Key Lab of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, P. R. China. xyli@issp.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Tuning the electronic structure, morphology, and structure of electrocatalysts is of great significance to achieve a highly active and stable hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, combining hydrothermal and low temperature phosphidation methods, V-doped Ni2P nanosheet arrays grown on carbon cloth (V-Ni2P NSAs/CC) were successfully prepared for the HER. It is found that the prepared V-Ni2P NSAs/CC exhibits preeminent performance for the HER. Specifically, it only requires an overpotential of 85 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA cm-2 in 1.0 M KOH solution. Moreover, the V-Ni2P NSAs/CC shows superior electrochemical stability, maintaining its HER performance up to 3000 cyclic voltammetry cycles. This work affords a guiding strategy for the synthesis of a high-performance and stable electrocatalyst for the HER.
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