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Synthesis of amorphous FeNiCo trimetallic hybrid electrode from ZIF precursors for efficient oxygen evolution reaction.

Junchao MaXingyu LuChao WangSha WangWenxiu HeBing ZhangLei ShaoXu ZhaiJingrui HanShiyi FengYu FuWei Qi
Published in: Nanotechnology (2021)
Development of non-noble multi-metallic electrocatalyst with high oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity via a simple and low-cost method is of great importance for improving the efficiency of water electro-chemical splitting. Herein, a solution impregnation strategy was proposed to synthesize novel FeNi-doped Co-ZIF-L trimetallic hybrid electrocatalyst using Co-ZIF-L as sacrificial templates and Fe and Ni ions as etchants and dopants. This synthetic strategy could be realized via the etching-coprecipitation mechanism to obtain an amorphous hybrid containing multi-metal hydroxides. The as-prepared electrocatalyst loaded on Ni foam displays a low overpotential of 245 mV at 10 mA·cm-2, a small Tafel slope of 54.9 mV·dec-1, and excellent stability at least 12 h in the OER process. The facile and efficient synthetic strategy presents a new entry for the fabrication of ZIFs-derived multi-metallic electrocatalysts for OER electrocatalysis.
Keyphrases
  • metal organic framework
  • low cost
  • quantum dots
  • solid state
  • room temperature
  • highly efficient
  • mass spectrometry
  • electron transfer
  • water soluble