NiO hollow microspheres as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for Overall Water-Splitting |
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Authors: | Aniruddha Mondal Anirban Paul Divesh N. Srivastava Asit B. Panda |
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Affiliation: | CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, CSMCRI-Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar, 364002, Gujarat, India |
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Abstract: | Development of efficient, earth-abundant and low-cost electrocatalyst for effective water electrolysis is highly demanding for production of sustainable hydrogen energy. In this paper, we report the cost-effective synthetic protocol for porous NiO hollow spheres in large scale through a simple spray drying strategy, using aqueous nickel ammonium carbonate complex solution, followed by calcination. The synthesized NiO hollow spheres calcined at 300 °C (NiO-300) are porous, made of nanoparticles in size range of 10–16 nm with a size range of 2.5–4 μm and total surface area of 120 m2/g. The NiO-300 exhibited excellent bifunctional electrocatalytic water splitting characteristic, both OER, and HER, in basic solution. NiO-300 modified glassy carbon electrode showed superior water electrolysis kinetics and to achieve 10 mA cm?2 current density, it required 370 mV overpotential for OER and 424 mV overpotential for HER in 1 M KOH. It is also worked well with cost-effective plastic chip electrode. An assembled two-electrode system by pairing NiO modified plastic chip electrode as both anode and cathode in a 1.0 M KOH electrolyte for overall water splitting exhibit clear bubble formation at 1.6 V potential. |
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Keywords: | Porous hollow sphere NiO Electrocatalyst Hydrogen evaluation reaction Oxygen evaluation reaction |
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