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Vol. 12 (2020)

Thermal Shock-Activated Spontaneous Growing of Nanosheets for Overall Water Splitting

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00505-2
Han Wu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Qi Lu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Jinfeng Zhang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Jiajun Wang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Xiaopeng Han
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Naiqin Zhao
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Wenbin Hu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Jiajun Li
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Yanan Chen
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China
Yida Deng
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Yida Deng

yida.deng@tju.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 162

Abstract

Nanomaterials based on nickel foam (NF) have been widely applied in energy conversion and storage field. Traditional synthesis methods such as hydrothermal method which is dangerous and high cost limited the scalable developments. Herein, we report a fast, simple, and low-cost synthesis method of nanomaterials based on NF by Joule-heating and water soaking treatment. Thin carbon-coated CoS on NF (NF-C/CoS) was synthesized by Joule-heating for a few seconds with rapid cooling. And then, NF-C/CoS/NiOOH with core–shell heterostructure was fabricated by soaking treatment of NF-C/CoS in water on which NiOOH nanosheets grew spontaneously. The formation mechanism is proposed that the coordination complex precursor converts into C/CoS on NF driven by Joule-heating, and the nickel on the surface of NF is activated to form metastable nickel simultaneously. The metastable nickel reacting with water leads to the formation of NiOOH, and the induction of CoS makes NiOOH grow continuously. This synthesis technology provides a new route to manufacture NF-based nanostructures, and the as-fabricated NF-C/CoS/NiOOH exhibits great potential as electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction.


Highlights:


1 Nanomaterials-based nickel foam (NF-C/CoS/NiOOH) with nanosheets structure and core–shell heterostructure was prepared for the first time by a facile and fast synthesis strategy of Joule-heating and water soaking treatment.
2 The formation mechanism of nanosheets structure was proposed that the driving force of nanosheets structure generation was the metastable nickel activated by thermal shock, and the CoS could induce the NiOOH nanosheets growing continually.
3 NF-C/CoS/NiOOH exhibited good oxygen evolution, hydrogen evolution, and overall water splitting performance.

Keywords

Ultrafast synthesis Spontaneous growing Thermal shock Seed inducing Water splitting
Wu, Han, Qi Lu, Jinfeng Zhang, Jiajun Wang, Xiaopeng Han, Naiqin Zhao, Wenbin Hu, Jiajun Li, Yanan Chen, and Yida Deng. 2020. “Thermal Shock-Activated Spontaneous Growing of Nanosheets for Overall Water Splitting”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (August):162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00505-2.
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