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Co 2 P–CoN Double Active Centers Confined in N‐Doped Carbon Nanotube: Heterostructural Engineering for Trifunctional Catalysis toward HER, ORR, OER, and Zn–Air Batteries Driven Water Splitting
Author(s) -
Guo Yingying,
Yuan Pengfei,
Zhang Jianan,
Xia Huicong,
Cheng Fangyi,
Zhou Mengfan,
Li Jin,
Qiao Yueyang,
Mu Shichun,
Xu Qun
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201805641
Subject(s) - materials science , oxygen evolution , catalysis , water splitting , carbon nanotube , chemical engineering , phosphide , density functional theory , doping , gravimetric analysis , reversible hydrogen electrode , pyrolysis , nanotechnology , inorganic chemistry , electrode , chemistry , electrochemistry , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , metal , working electrode , computational chemistry , photocatalysis , engineering , metallurgy
Developing active, robust, and nonprecious electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is highly crucial and challenging. In this work, a facile strategy is developed for scalable fabrication of dicobalt phosphide (Co 2 P)–cobalt nitride (CoN) core–shell nanoparticles with double active sites encapsulated in nitrogen‐doped carbon nanotubes (Co 2 P/CoN‐in‐NCNTs) by straight forward pyrolysis method. Both density functional theory calculation and experimental results reveal that pyrrole nitrogen coupled with Co 2 P is the most active one for HER, while Co–N–C active sites existing on the interfaces between CoN and N‐doped carbon shells are responsible for the ORR and OER activity in this catalyst. Furthermore, liquid‐state and all‐solid‐state Zn–air batteries are equipped. Co 2 P/CoN‐in‐NCNTs show high power density as high as 194.6 mW cm −2 , high gravimetric energy density of 844.5 W h kg −1 , very low charge–discharge polarization, and excellent reversibility of 96 h at 5 mA cm −2 in liquid system. Moreover, the Co 2 P/CoN‐in‐NCNTs profiles confirm excellent activity for water splitting.