Quenching-induced anion defects and precise Ru doping on Co 3 O 4 /CoN heterostructures for efficient overall water splitting performance

The difficulty of nitride modification is to develop simple and efficient strategies to induce defects and efficiently capture Ru atoms. With these in mind, this work innovatively constructed a Ru-Co O /CoN-L catalyst with abundant anion defects (oxygen vacancies (V ) and nitrogen vacancies (V )) us...

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Published in:Journal of colloid and interface science 2024-07, Vol.676, p.647
Main Authors: Li, Shuangshuang, Liu, Jie, Du, Yunmei, Wang, Mengmeng, Gu, Yuanxiang, Chen, Dehong, Zhang, Ruiyong, Wang, Lei
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Language:English
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Summary:The difficulty of nitride modification is to develop simple and efficient strategies to induce defects and efficiently capture Ru atoms. With these in mind, this work innovatively constructed a Ru-Co O /CoN-L catalyst with abundant anion defects (oxygen vacancies (V ) and nitrogen vacancies (V )) using the nitridation-quenching-Ru doping strategy. Surprisingly, the porous structure provided more active sites, and the V and V were conducive to promoting the anchoring of Ru atoms. These significantly improved the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performances of the Ru-Co O /CoN/NF-L catalyst. The density functional theory results showed that the anion defects optimized the hydrogen adsorption capacity of the Ru active sites for the HER. Furthermore, Ru dopants and anion defects reduced the OER energy barrier of the Co-active sites, accelerating the HER and OER kinetics. This study proposes a new concept for defect construction and nitride-structure optimization.
ISSN:1095-7103
DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2024.07.168