A carbonization/interfacial assembly-driven electroplating approach for water-splitting textile electrodes with remarkably low overpotentials and high operational stabilityopen access
- Authors
- Mo, Jeongmin; Ko, Younji; Yun, Young Soo; Huh, June; Cho, Jinhan
- Issue Date
- 14-9월-2022
- Publisher
- ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
- Citation
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, v.15, no.9, pp.3815 - 3829
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
- Volume
- 15
- Number
- 9
- Start Page
- 3815
- End Page
- 3829
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/144078
- DOI
- 10.1039/d2ee01510b
- ISSN
- 1754-5692
- Abstract
- A key requirement for realizing highly efficient commercial water-splitting devices is to develop non-noble metal-based electrodes that can generate a large amount of hydrogen fuels with low overpotentials and high operational stability. Herein, we introduce high-performance water-splitting electrodes (WSEs) with extremely low overpotentials and unprecedently high operation stability via a carbonization/interfacial assembly-induced electroplating approach. To this end, silk textiles were first converted to carboxylic acid-functionalized conductive textiles using carbonization and subsequent acid treatment. Then, amine linkers were assembled onto the conductive textiles to achieve favorable interfacial interactions with electrocatalysts. For a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrode, Ni was electroplated onto the interface-modified textile, while to prepare an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrode, NiFeCo was additionally electroplated onto the Ni-electroplated textile. These HER and OER electrodes exhibited extremely low overpotentials in alkaline media (12 mV at 10 mA cm(-2) for the HER and 186 mV at 50 mA cm(-2) for the OER), outperforming the conventional non-noble metal-based electrodes. Additionally, the overall-water-splitting reaction of full-cell electrodes was stably maintained at a remarkably high current density of 2000 mA cm(-2) and a low cell voltage of 1.70 V. We believe that our approach can provide a basis for developing commercially available high-performance WSEs.
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