JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2018
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IF 6.945
Xing Qian,Hongyu Liu,Yixuan Huang,Zejia Ren,Yating Yu,Chong Xu,Linxi Hou
Transition metal chalcogenides with yolk-shell nanostructures are a family of promising electrocatalytic materials with complex interior construction and remarkable structural tenability. In this work, a sequence of yolk-shell transition metal sulfide nanospheres (Co-Ni-MoS x , Co-MoS x and Ni-MoS x ) are prepared as superior Pt-free catalysts for dye-sensitized solar cells. This yolk-shell structure, consisting of a thin shell and an inner porous core, exposes more active sites and provides more contact regions between the electrolyte and catalyst. By comparing with the ternary Co-MoS x and Ni-MoS x nanospheres , the quaternary Co-Ni-MoS x nanospheres have advantages of the relatively larger surface area , favourable chemical composition , higher conductivity and excellent catalytic performance for expediting the reduction of I 3 − in solar cells. Particularly, as for Co-Ni-MoS x , a splendid power conversion efficiency of 9.76% is achieved under a standard irradiation, which is much better than that of Pt (8.24%).
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RSC Advances
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2020
·Vol. 10
·期 64
·39026-39032
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IF 3.119
Ying Zhao,Dongyue Su,Wentao Dong,Xiaoyang Xu,Xiangjing Zhang,Yongqi Hu
The investigation of highly efficient catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (ER-CO2) is the most critical challenge to commercialize conversion and utilization of CO2. Herein we propose a new and very promising catalyst, high crystallinity Sn crystals on Ni foam (Sn@f-Ni), for the electroreduction reaction of CO2 in potassium bicarbonate aqueous solution. The catalyst is fabricated in situ on a pretreated Ni foam substrate through a galvanostatic electrodeposition strategy. SEM and XRD demonstrate that high crystallinity Sn crystals, with an average size of 2–3 μm, evenly dispersed on the Ni foam support can be reproducibly obtained. Electrochemical measurements demonstrate that the Sn@f-Ni electrode at the deposition current of 15 mA exhibits superior performance in promoting the ER-CO2. Tafel measurements show that except for electrodes with a deposition current of 5 mA, the Tafel slopes of the other four electrodes are all above 100 mV dec−1, which is consistent with a rate-determining initial electron transfer to CO2 to form a surface adsorbed intermediate, a mechanism that is commonly invoked for metal electrodes. A stable composition of syngas can be obtained by electrolysis at −1.7 V potential (vs. Ag/AgCl), indicating that the Sn surface with high crystallinity conforms to the Heyrovsky–Volmer mechanism at a potential of −1.7 V. The ratio of CO and H2 generation was about 1 : 2, meaning it could be used as syngas for preparing some valuable fuels. This work provided an efficient method to convert the surplus CO2 to valuable syngas.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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IF 16.744
Lichong Peng,Jiaona Wang,Shiquan Guo,Congju Li
Developing high-porosity, flexible non-noble metal oxygen electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) involving proton coupled electron transfer reaction is of essential importance for improving the efficiency of electrocatalysts. Herein, we propose a novel multilevel structure of Co/Co 3 O 4 -Ni/NiO doped macroporous interconnected hollow carbon nanofibers (Co/Co 3 O 4 -Ni/NiO@MHCNFs) as a self-standing and binder-free cathode catalyst for Li-O 2 batteries. We employed poly(styrene- co -acrylonitrile) (SAN) as a self-sacrificial template to fabricate hollow nanofibers by coaxial electrospinning and pyrolysis. Furthermore, macroporous interconnected hollow carbon nanofibers were achieved by fine-tuning the particle size of ZIF-8 and electrospinning parameters. Remarkably, as a proof-of-concept application, the Co/Co 3 O 4 -Ni/NiO decorated self-standing macroporous interconnected hollow carbon nanofibers (MHCNFs) electrodes exhibited significantly electrochemical performance, including a long-term cyclability (163 cycles) and maximum capacity (16623 mAh/g). This work rationally designs a scalable preparation of Co/Co 3 O 4 -Ni/NiO doped macroporous interconnected hollow carbon nanofibers, which provides a new idea for the design of self-supporting and binder-free oxygen electrocatalysts.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2022
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IF 7.336
Qi Liu,Zhenqian Wu,Jingying Sun,Ruimei Xu,Xianwei Li,Xiao Yu,Yong Liu
Co-free, Ni-rich cathode materials have aroused enormous attentions for the low cost, sustainable development of lithium-ion batteries. However, it is not easy to fabricate single-crystalline Ni-rich cathode materials from the hierarchical structured precursors via coprecipitation method. Furthermore, it is difficult to introduce Al dopant during the coprecipitation process to obtain high quality Ni-rich cathode material owing to the rapid sediment of Al 3+ . Herein, we developed a one-step stirring-assisted cation chelation and reassembly route for fabricating crack-free single-crystalline, Al-doped Co-free Ni-rich cathode material. The fabricated LiNi 0.8 Mn 0.16 Al 0.04 O 2 shows a high capacity of 204 mAh g −1 at 0.1C, excellent rate capability (143 mAh g −1 at 10C), and good cycling stability (an initial specific capacity of 178 mAh g −1 with capacity retention of 82.2% at 1C over 200 cycles). Furthermore, when tested at a raised temperature of 55 °C, it exhibited an initial capacity of 194.7 mAh g −1 with capacity retention of 82.1% at 1C over 100 cycles. The outstanding electrochemical performance can be ascribed to the synergistic effect of single crystalline structure and successful doping of Al element in the cathode, which enable fast ion and electron transport , suppress Li/Ni mixing and maintain the structural stability.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2020
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IF 10.652
Yu Cheng,Haoran Guo,Pengfei Yuan,Xinpan Li,Lirong Zheng,Rui Song
To satisfy the practical requirements of electrochemical water splitting, developing a flexible, effective and sustainable approach for scalable production of bifunctional electrocatalyst for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a tremendous issue to be rationally addressed. Herein, a solid-state diffusion strategy with Ni foam and N-doped carbon layers is applied to prepare multi-interfacial, self-supported and N-doped carbon nanotube (NCNT) encapsulated Ni nanoparticles (NPs) array bifunctional electrocatalyst (NCNT-NP@NF). Prominently, this NCNT-NP@NF is scalable to meet the application requirements and can be used as a binder-free electrode for direct the water splitting. The optimal sample demonstrate outstanding HER/OER performance in 1.0 M KOH, with low overpotential ( η 10 ) at 10 mA cm −2 during HER (96.1 mV) and OER (240 mV) process, which is extremely superior to the most reported metal-based electrocatalysts and even better than commercial IrO 2 (400 mV at 10 mA cm −2 for OER). Strikingly, when these bifunctional electrocatalysts are employed in a dual-electrode electrolyzer for water splitting, the NCNT-NP@NF only needs cell voltage of 1.54 V to drive overall water splitting in 1.0 M KOH, and displays excellent long-term stability (150 h for water splitting). Moreover, experiments combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations clarify that the remarkable electrochemical activity and stability are mainly attribute to the synergistic effect of the uniform distribution of Ni NPs, heteroatomic doping, as well as district confinement effect of NCNT leading to enhanced electronic multi-interfacial transmission, all these factors co-accelerate electrocatalytic kinetics. Accordingly, this solid-state diffusion method possesses a favorable potential to construct a multi-interfacial and self-supported electrocatalysts in the fields of sustainable supply of clean energies.
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Energy Technology
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2021
·Vol. 9
·期 8
·2100205
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IF 3.631
Zipeng Zeng,Aya Gomaa Abdelkader Mohamed,Xiang Zhang,Yaobing Wang
Although metal–N-doped carbons are promising electrocatalysts for CO 2 -to-CO conversion due to their high conversion efficiency and current density, their commercial application is still challenging due to their narrow potential/current range. In general, a wide potential/current electrocatalyst is in high demand for industrial CO 2 electrocatalysis. Controllable strategy to tune N configurations toward pyridinic-enriched metal–N x active sites is attractive. The synergetic effect of the ability of pyridinic N to capture Lewis acidic CO 2 and the characteristics of Ni–N active sites to inhibit the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) can achieve a wide potential window, which has high practical value. Herein, the well-chosen precursors resulting in a pyridinic-enriched Ni–N x site can selectively catalyze CO 2 toward CO generation in aqueous media with a high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 100% with an overpotential of 680 mV. Continuous CO FE > 90% was recorded under a wide range of potentials without decay. Motivated by its practical characteristics in CO 2 electrocatalysts, a Zn–CO 2 battery is assembled achieving a CO 2 –CO conversion efficiency of more than 90% in a wide discharge current window. Therefore, the results highlight that pyridinic-enriched Ni–N x holds great promise as simultaneous CO-selective electrocatalyst by suitably tuning M–N configurations as new perspective strategy.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2021
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IF 13.273
Chen Qiao,Zahid Usman,Tai Cao,Souleymen Rafai,Zhitao Wang,Youqi Zhu,Chuanbao Cao,Jiatao Zhang
High-valence Ni and Fe metal sites have demonstrated a crucial role in enhancing the catalytic performances of NiFe-LDH electrocatalysts in oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Although considerable OER catalytic performances achieved under high overpotential, the catalytic talent of NiFe-LDH electrocatalysts at low overpotential is rarely realized due to the absence of high-valence Ni and Fe sites. We herein report a surface engineering route to fabricate sulfated NiFe-LDH nanosheets via ion exchange strategy in sulfate-rich media. XPS results reveal a modified surface electronic structure with high-valence Ni and Fe after ion exchange reaction. Computational PDOS results suggest that computed d-band centers (ε d ) of Fe and Ni for sulfated NiFe-LDH show a significant downward shift resulting an increased valence of metal cation with orbital volume shrinkage. The high-valence Fe can facilitate a optimized multi-electron process of Ni center from [Ni II -OH] − /[Ni III -OH] − to Ni IV -OOH rather than Ni II /Ni III to Ni IV at low overpotential. The high-valence Ni can serve as the highly active center for O-O coupling during OER process. Combined with the synergetic action of high-valence Fe and Ni, the sulfated NiFe-LDH nanosheets exhibit much larger reaction kinetics and outstanding electrocatalytic activity on glassy carbon electrode (η 10 = 219 mV, η 50 = 288 mV) with a remarkable long-term stability.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2021
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IF 5.816
Chen Cheng,Dandan Li,Tao Zhao,Dong Wang,Dazhong Zhong,Genyan Hao,Guang Liu,Jinping Li,Qiang Zhao
A NiFe alloy was designed on nickel foam (NF) as a precursor using cathodic electrodeposition . NiFe 2 O 4 –Ni 3 S 2 nanorods (NRs) composite catalysts were prepared by Fe 3+ impregnation and further hydrothermal sulfuration methods. NiFe 2 O 4 –Ni 3 S 2 nanosheets (NSs) were also prepared by direct hydrothermal sulfuration of the NiFe alloy for comparison. Compared to the dense NS structure of the NiFe 2 O 4 –Ni 3 S 2 NSs/NF, the NiFe 2 O 4 –Ni 3 S 2 NRs/NF showed better oxygen evolution performance due to its unique weed-like NR array structure composed of additional oxygen evolution reaction (OER) active sites, with a strong electron interaction for Ni and Fe and the active sulfide synergistic effect with oxides . Therefore, Driving a current density of 10 mA cm −2 only requires an overpotential of 189 mV and the catalyst could provide 100 mA cm −2 continuously and be constant for more than 80 h in 1.0 M KOH. This experiment indicated that Fe 3+ immersion had an indirect regulating effect on the morphological growth of the catalyst, which provided a novel concept for designing better OER catalysts.
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ELECTROANALYSIS
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2017
·Vol. 29
·期 5
·1243-1251
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IF 2.851
X. Li,X.H. Niu,H.Y. Wu,S.C. Meng,W.C. Zhang,J.M. Pan,F.X. Qiu
Here we report a new molecularly imprinted electrochemical sensor (MIECS) for the impedimetric enzyme-free analysis of glucose. A computational modeling strategy was first utilized to screen promising functional monomers for imprinting assembly, and simulation data suggested that methacrylic acid (MAA) exhibited a preferable capability to recognize the target molecule compared to other common monomers. Then the MIECS was prepared via introducing MAA-based recognition sites onto a porous Ni foam with large surface. The fabricated sensor was subtly characterized by Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and cyclic voltammetry, and an impedimetric method was selected to detect the glucose target in a basic medium. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed MIECS could selectively recognize glucose against coexisting species, with good linear responses of the charge transfer resistance upon the target concentration in the scope of 10∼55 mM. These results indicate its potential applications in the recognization and detection of glucose in complex matrices.
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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2013
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IF 5.787
Guanfeng Liang,Limin He,Haiyang Cheng,Wei Li,Xiaoru Li,Chao Zhang,Yancun Yu,Fengyu Zhao
A series of Ni catalysts were prepared with various supports (ZSM-5, Al 2 O 3 , SiO 2 , bentonite, TiO 2 , and kieselguhr) and their catalytic properties were investigated for the hydrogenation of cellobiose and glucose, the reaction intermediates of cellulose hydrolysis in hot-compressed water, in order to elucidate the key factors to control the hexitols selectivity in the hydrolytic hydrogenation of cellulose. For the hydrogenation of cellobiose, hexitols were produced with a selectivity above 82% over Ni/ZSM-5, but the other checked Ni catalysts produced large amount of glycerol, ethylene glycol , and propanediol, and the product distribution strikingly depended on the catalysts used. On the basis of kinetic experiments, it was the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation ability of Ni catalyst that played a critical role in controlling hexitols selectivity. High hydrogenation and inferior dehydrogenation activity of Ni catalysts were essential for obtaining high yield of hexitols in the hydrolytic hydrogenation of cellulose. The synergistic effect of Ni active species and acid–base sites was proposed to accelerate the dehydrogenation of sorbitol and thus reducing the yield of hexitols.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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IF 9.229
Liang Luo,Ding Wang,Zhongren Zhou,Peng Dong,Shunyi Yang,Jianguo Duan,Yingjie Zhang
Ni-rich layered oxides have become the main force of cathode materials for EV cells with high energy density owing to their satisfactory theoretical capacity, cost-effectiveness, and low toxicity. However, the high-voltage stability of Ni-rich cathode materials still has not fulfilled the demand of power batteries due to their intrinsic structural and electrochemical instability. The commonly used modification procedures are achieved via a wet process, which may lead to surface lithium-ion deficiency, phase change, and high costs during manufacturing. Herein, we construct a multifunctional Ti-based interfacial architecture on the surface of LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2 (NCM) cathode materials via a novel dry interface modifying process in which no solvent is employed. The Ti-based interfacial architecture accelerates the transportation of lithium ions and consequently stabilizes the interfacial structure. This approach significantly improves the cycling stability in half cells, with a 15% increase in capacity retention over 100 cycles at 1 C under a high voltage of 4.5 V. Impressively, few internal cracks are observed in a modified sample after 500 times of charge and discharge between 2.75 and 4.35 V at 1 C rate, and the capacity retention can reach 93%.
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SOLAR ENERGY
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2019
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IF 4.674
Weihua Fei,Yun Song,Najun Li,Dongyun Chen,Qingfeng Xu,Hua Li,Jinghui He,Jianmei Lu
A visible-light-active Ni foam@ZnO@ZnFe-LDH composite photocatalyst was fabricated with well-defined porous 2D/2D interconnected nanosheets of ZnO and binary ZnFe layered double hydroxide (ZnFe-LDH) growing vertically on the Ni foam substrate. In view of the excellent conductivity of Ni foam, it can be used as an electrode substrate to deposit ZnO nanosheets on the surface by electrodeposition . Then the ultrathin layered 2D ZnFe-LDH was uniformly coated on ZnO nanosheets by hydrothermal method. A highly effective three-electrode photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) system was constructed with Ni foam@ZnO@ZnFe-LDH as photoanode. The 2D/2D core-shell heterojunction formed between ZnO core and ZnFe-LDH shell not only resulted in a narrowing bandgap and increased the visible light absorption of the ZnO, but also promoted the migration of the photogenerated electrons and then the degradation efficiency with a low applied potential was greatly improved. The dyes (Acid Red 1 as model) and hexavalent chromium ions (Cr(VI)) in water can be simultaneously removed by oxidation reaction on the anode and reduction reaction on the cathode, respectively. In addition, the Ni foam@ZnO@ZnFe-LDH composite photocatalyst also showed outstanding stability during the application process. Thus, the photoelectrocatalytic synergitic effect based on Ni foam@ZnO@ZnFe-LDH gives a simple and effective strategy to fast remove Cr(VI) and organic pollutants in PEC process at low voltage.
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