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Nanostructured NaFeS2 as a cost-effective and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution with reduced overpotentials

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15640%2F21%3A73612200" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15640/21:73612200 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894721028965?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894721028965?via%3Dihub</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.131315" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cej.2021.131315</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Nanostructured NaFeS2 as a cost-effective and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution with reduced overpotentials

  • Original language description

    One of the biggest challenges currently in the field of energy generation and conservation is to develop a stable, scalable and cost-effective electrocatalyst with reduced overpotentials for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). This unprecedented effort presents a robust, non-costly ternary alkali metal-based chalcogenide (NaFeS2) as an effective and highly active electrocatalyst prepared by the hydrothermal method. The monocrystalline nature of the NaFeS2 nanostructures was shown using SAED patterns. The differences in the atomic radii of Na and Fe favors the formation of Fe-S bonds largely contributing to the enhanced electrocatalytic activity of NaFeS2. Further, a decrease in the kinetic energy of the catalytic reaction increases the electrocatalytic property of NaFeS2. We also highlighted the contribution of the high surface area, the Fermi level and the d-orbitals of Fe in enhancing the OER. NaFeS2/NF shows a current density of 200 mA cm-2 with a small potential of 1.60 V and an overpotential of 370 mV indicating that the material possesses a remarkable electrocatalytic activity outperforming other electrocatalysts in the category. Further, by displaying a potential of -220 mV, NaFeS2/NF attained a current density of -100 mA cm-2, demonstrating a significantly improved HER performance of the electrocatalyst. Also, at a potential of -220 mV, the material exhibited a high stability at a continuous electrolysis of about 30 h. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicated that out of the possible adsorption sites on the NaFeS2 surface, only (010) and (100) exhibit catalytically preferential adsorption energy (EH) values, which are eventually responsible for the superior electrocatalytic activity. Finally, both the experimental studies and the DFT calculations complement each other and present NaFeS2 as a potentially promising bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting applications, which can be scaled-up and deployed for large-scale hydrogen productions.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    21001 - Nano-materials (production and properties)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

  • ISSN

    1385-8947

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    426

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    DEC

  • Country of publishing house

    CH - SWITZERLAND

  • Number of pages

    10

  • Pages from-to

    "nečíslováno"

  • UT code for WoS article

    000727804600002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85110499682