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Yu Bai1, Huaiyu Zhang1, Xue Lu2
1School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Advanced Materials and Flexible Electronics (IAMFE), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
Abstract:
To meet the requirements for industrial water splitting to generate hydrogen, it is urgent, but still quite challenging to develop highly active and stable electrocatalysts for large-current-density hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, Ru-incorporated NiSe2 (Ru-NiSe2 ) was designed and synthesized. The introduction of Ru results in the formation of hierarchically structured Ru-NiSe2 with large electrochemical active surface area, and well-modified electronic structure. As expected, the as-fabricated Ru-NiSe2 displays impressive HER activity in 1.0 M KOH, with a low overpotential of 180.8 mV to reach the current density of 1000 mA cm-2 . Ru-NiSe2 also presents outstanding long-term stability at high current densities, owing to its high intrinsic chemical stability, and strong catalyst-support interface. Notably, when performed at a certain current density of 1000 mA cm-2 , the overpotential increase after 90 h is only 13 mV. Such excellent HER performance of Ru-NiSe2 demonstrates its great potential for practical use in industrial water splitting.
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