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Boosting hydrogen evolution activity of vanadyl pyrophosphate nanosheets for electrocatalytic overall water splitting
Chaoxiong Zhang1, Haoxuan Liu, Jia He
1Center for Electron Microscopy, Institute for New Energy Materials and Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China. xjliu@tjut.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Herein, (VO)2P2O7 nanosheets function as a highly-active electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction with an ultralow overpotential of 30 mV at 10 mA cm-2 in basic media, being close to Pt/C. Furthermore, as a bifunctional electrocatalyst, (VO)2P2O7 not only exhibits high activity but also good stability for overall water splitting.
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