Tuning Electronic Structure and Composition of FeNi Nanoalloys for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis via a General Synthesis Strategy
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Yong Wang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore, 138634 Singapore
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, Leiden, 2333 CC The Netherlands
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Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis, Singapore, 138632 Singapore
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Kedar Hippalgaonkar
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore, 138634 Singapore
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Zheng Liu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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Yizhong Huang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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Yong Wang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
Search for more papers by this authorNa Gong
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore, 138634 Singapore
Search for more papers by this authorTeddy Salim
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
Search for more papers by this authorMingchuan Luo
Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, Leiden, 2333 CC The Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorTeck Leong Tan
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis, Singapore, 138632 Singapore
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Kedar Hippalgaonkar
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore, 138634 Singapore
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Zheng Liu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Yizhong Huang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Singapore
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Developing low-cost and efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalysts is key to decarbonization. A facile, surfactant-free, and gram-level biomass-assisted fast heating and cooling synthesis method is reported for synthesizing a series of carbon-encapsulated dense and uniform FeNi nanoalloys with a single-phase face-centered-cubic solid-solution crystalline structure and an average particle size of sub-5 nm. This method also enables precise control of both size and composition. Electrochemical measurements show that among FexNi(1−x) nanoalloys, Fe0.5Ni0.5 has the best performance. Density functional theory calculations support the experimental findings and reveal that the optimally positioned d-band center of O-covered Fe0.5Ni0.5 renders a half-filled antibonding state, resulting in moderate binding energies of key reaction intermediates. By increasing the total metal content from 25 to 60 wt%, the 60% Fe0.5Ni0.5/40% C shows an extraordinarily low overpotential of 219 mV at 10 mA cm−2 with a small Tafel slope of 23.2 mV dec−1 for the oxygen evolution reaction, which are much lower than most other FeNi-based electrocatalysts and even the state-of-the-art RuO2. It also shows robust durability in an alkaline environment for at least 50 h. The gram-level fast heating and cooling synthesis method is extendable to a wide range of binary, ternary, quaternary nanoalloys, as well as quinary and denary high-entropy-alloy nanoparticles.
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