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- Title
Suppression of Passivation on Nickel Hydroxide in Electrocatalytic Urea Oxidization.
- Authors
Li, Dan; Zhou, Xiaomin; Ruan, Qingdong; Liu, Liangliang; Liu, Jinyuan; Wang, Bin; Wang, Yinchuan; Zhang, Xiaolin; Chen, Rongsheng; Ni, Hongwei; Huang, Chao; Wang, Haozhi; Chu, Paul K.
- Abstract
Surface passivation of Ni‐based electrocatalysts during the electrocatalytic urea oxidization reaction (UOR) renders them impractical and inefficient for applications requiring high current densities. Herein, an efficient strategy to suppress passivation of Ni(OH)x nanosheets is demonstrated by modulating the near‐surface properties using plasma immersion ion implantation, and more importantly, the formation threshold of the UOR‐active γ‐NiOOH phase is retained. As a result, a remarkable UOR current density of up to 470 mA cm−2 is achieved from the La ion implanted sample, due to the mitigation of passivation, increase in operando active sites, and acceleration of the catalytic kinetics. By performing a systematic assessment with a multitude of operando, quasi‐operando, and time‐varying methods, the γ‐NiOOH derived from Ni(OH)x is shown to undergo surface deprotonation at high potentials consequently leading to the occurrence of OER as well as UOR passivation. Furthermore, the implanted La ions are capable of stabilizing protons to sustain UOR.
- Subjects
PLASMA immersion ion implantation; PASSIVATION; SURFACE passivation; UREA
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, Vol 34, Issue 14, p1
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.202313680