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Charge Redistribution in Co-Doped Nickel Sulfide to Accelerate Its Alcohol Electrooxidation
Yufeng Zhang1, Jinjie Fang2, Qianhui Wu1
1Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zero-Carbon Energy Development and System Integration, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing 211171, China.
Abstract:
Electrochemical alcohol oxidation reaction (AOR) coupled with hydrogen evolution reaction is a significant way to coproduce green hydrogen and value-added chemicals with a low energy consumption. Herein, we report the synthesis of a series of M-doped (M = Co, Fe, and Cu) nickel sulfide nanowires (NWs), and the obtained Ni2Co1S2 NWs exhibit high AOR performance. It shows a high benzyl alcohol oxidation activity of 56.8 mA/cm2 at 1.35 V, which is 24.6 times as high as the activity for Ni3S2 NWs and also better than for most of the reported catalysts. The Ni2Co1S2 NWs also show high activity for glycerol and ethylene glycol oxidations. The high AOR activity of Ni2Co1S2 is attributed to the optimized charge redistribution induced by Co, which promotes the formation of the AOR active Ni(III) species. These results suggest the redistributed charge induced by foreign elements could significantly promote the catalytic performance, and the obtained catalysts are promising for AOR.
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