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Ni Foam-Supported Ni Nanoclusters for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

  • Hoeun Seong (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University) ;
  • Jinhee Kim (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kiyoung Chang (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University) ;
  • Hyun-woo Kim (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University) ;
  • Woojun Choi (Department of Chemistry and Medical Chemistry, Yonsei University) ;
  • Dongil Lee (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2023.01.13
  • Accepted : 2023.03.07
  • Published : 2023.08.31
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Abstract

Developing oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts is essential to accomplish viable CO2 and water electrolysis. Herein, we report the fabrication and OER performance of Ni-foam (NF)-immobilized Ni6 nanoclusters (NCs) (Ni6/NF) prepared by a dip-coating process. The Ni6/NF electrode exhibited a high current density of 500 mA/cm2 for the OER at an overpotential as low as 0.39 V. Ni6/NF exhibited high durability in an alkaline solution without corrosion. Electrokinetic studies revealed that OER can be easily initiated on Ni6 NC with fast electron-transfer rates. Finally, we demonstrated stable CO2-to-CO electroreduction using an NC-based zero-gap CO2 electrolyzer operated at a current density of 100 mA/cm2 and a full-cell potential of 2.0 V for 12 h.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Carbon-to-X Project (Project No. 2020M3H7A1096388) through the NRF, funded by the Korea government (MSIT) and the Korea Electric Power Corporation (grant No. R20XO02-23).

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