MOF-Derived Fe-Doped Ni@NC Hierarchical Hollow Microspheres as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Qianqian Wang; Yanyan Song; Deshuai Sun; Lixue Zhang

doi:10.1021/acsomega.1c01132

MOF-Derived Fe-Doped Ni@NC Hierarchical Hollow Microspheres as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction

ACS Omega. 2021 Apr 13;6(16):11077-11082. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c01132. eCollection 2021 Apr 27.

Authors

Qianqian Wang¹, Yanyan Song¹, Deshuai Sun¹, Lixue Zhang¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Bio-fibers and Eco-textiles, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071 Shandong, P. R. China.

Abstract

The development of low-cost and efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great importance for producing hydrogen via water splitting. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) provide an opportunity for the facile preparation of high-efficiency OER electrocatalysts. In this work, we prepared iron-doped nickel nanoparticles encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon microspheres (Fe-Ni@NC) with a unique hierarchical porous structure by directly pyrolyzing the MOF precursor for effectively boosting OER. The Fe doping has a significant enhancement effect on the catalytic performance. The optimized Fe (5%)-Ni@NC catalyst represents a remarkable activity with an overpotential of 257 mV at 10 mA cm^-2 and superior stability toward OER in 1.0 M KOH.