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Jiali Lu1, Wenjie Jiang1, Rui Deng1
1Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning 530004, China.
Abstract:
Alloys with bimetallic electron modulation effect are promising catalysts for the electrooxidation of urea. However, the side reaction oxygen evolution reaction (OER) originating from the competitive adsorption of OH- and urea severely limited the urea oxidation reaction (UOR) activity on the alloy catalysts. This work successfully constructs the defect-rich NiCo alloy with lattice strain (PMo-NiCo/NF) by rapid pyrolysis and co-doping. By taking advantage of the compressive strain, the d-band center of NiCo is shifted downward, inhibiting OH- from adsorbing on the NiCo site and avoiding the detrimental OER. Meanwhile, the oxygenophilic P/Mo tailored specific adsorption sites to adsorb OH- preferentially, which further released the NiCo sites to ensure the enriched adsorption of urea, thus improving the UOR efficiency. As a result, PMo-NiCo/NF only requires 1.27 V and -57 mV to drive a current density of ±10 mA cm-2 for UOR and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), respectively. With the guidance of this work, reactant competing adsorption sites could be tailored for effective electrocatalytic performance.
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