Hierarchical cobalt phenylphosphonate nanothorn flowers for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation at neutral pH

doi:10.1016/S1872-2067(19)63513-8

Abstract

Abstract: Cobalt-based phosphate/phosphonates are a class of promising water oxidation catalysts at neutral pH. Herein, we reported a facile hydrothermal synthesis of various nanostructured cobalt phenylphosphonates. It is found that the number of hydroxyl group of structure-directing reagent is crucial for the construction of 3D hierarchical structures including hierarchical nanosheet flower-like assemblies and nanothorn microsphere. These samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, infrared, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy techniques. They can act as highly efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction at neutral pH. Among these, hierarchical cobalt phenylphosphonate nanothorn flowers present excellent performance, affording a current density of 1 mA cm^-2 required a small overpotential of 393 mV. This work offers a new clue to develop high-performance metal phosphonate/phosphate catalysts toward electrochemical water oxidation.

Key words: Phosphate, Morphology, Electrocatalysis, Neutral pH, Oxygen evolution reaction, Phosphonates

Mei-Rong Liu, Yang-Peng Lin, Kai Wang, Shumei Chen, Fei Wang, Tianhua Zhou. Hierarchical cobalt phenylphosphonate nanothorn flowers for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation at neutral pH[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2020, 41(10): 1654-1662.

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