Defective Carbon–CoP Nanoparticles Hybrids with Interfacial Charges Polarization for Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis |
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Authors: | Yunxiang Lin Li Yang Youkui Zhang Hongliang Jiang Zijian Xiao Chuanqiang Wu Guobin Zhang Jun Jiang Li Song |
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Affiliation: | 1. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials) School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China;2. School of National Defense Science and Technology, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China |
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Abstract: | The development of efficient catalysts for both oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER)) is central to regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable metal–air batteries. It is highly desirable to achieve the efficient integration of dual active components into the catalysts and to understand the interaction between the dual components. Here, a facile approach is demonstrated to construct defective carbon–CoP nanoparticle hybrids as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, and further probe the interfacial charge distribution behavior. By combining multiple synchrotron‐based X‐ray spectroscopic characterizations with density functional theory calculations, the interfacial charge polarization with the electrons gathering at the defective carbon surface and the holes gathering at the CoP surface due to strong interfacial coupling is revealed, which simultaneously facilitates the ORR and OER with remarkable bifunctional oxygen electrode activities. This work not only offers a bifunctional oxygen catalyst with outstanding performance, but also unravels the promoting factor of the hybrids from the view of interfacial charge distribution. |
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Keywords: | electrocatalysis interfacial charges transfer oxygen evolution reaction oxygen reduction reaction X‐ray absorption spectra |
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