Electroless Plating of Highly Efficient Bifunctional Boride‐Based Electrodes toward Practical Overall Water Splitting |
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Authors: | Weiju Hao Renbing Wu Ruiqi Zhang Yuan Ha Ziliang Chen Lincai Wang Yanjing Yang Xiaohua Ma Dalin Sun Fang Fang Yanhui Guo |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Material Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;2. Research Center of Resource Recycling Science and Engineering, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai, China;3. Xi'an Modern Chemistry Research Institute, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China |
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Abstract: | Exploring highly‐efficient and low‐cost electrodes for both hydrogen and oxygen evolution reaction (HER and OER) is of primary importance to economical water splitting. Herein, a series of novel and robust bifunctional boride‐based electrodes are successfully fabricated using a versatile Et2NHBH3‐involved electroless plating (EP) approach via deposition of nonprecious boride‐based catalysts on various substrates. Owing to the unique binder‐free porous nodule structure induced by the hydrogen release EP reaction, most of the nonprecious boride‐based electrodes are highly efficient for overall water splitting. As a distinctive example, the Co‐B/Ni electrode can afford 10 mA cm?2 at overpotentials of only 70 mV for HER and 140 mV for OER, and can also survive at large current density of 1000 mA cm?2 for over 20 h without performance degradation in 1.0 m KOH. Several boride‐based two‐electrode electrolyzers can achieve 10 mA cm?2 at low voltages of around 1.4 V. Moreover, the facile EP approach is economically viable for flexible and large size electrode production. |
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Keywords: | bifunctional boride‐based electrodes electroless plating overall water splitting |
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