International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Volume. 6, Issue 1, 15502(2024)
Towards a new avenue for rapid synthesis of electrocatalytic electrodes via laser-induced hydrothermal reaction for water splitting
Electrochemical production of hydrogen from water requires the development of electrocatalysts that are active, stable, and low-cost for water splitting. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly exploring binder-free electrocatalytic integrated electrodes (IEs) as an alternative to conventional powder-based electrode preparation methods, for the former is highly desirable to improve the catalytic activity and long-term stability for large-scale applications of electrocatalysts. Herein, we demonstrate a laser-induced hydrothermal reaction (LIHR) technique to grow NiMoO4 nanosheets on nickel foam, which is then calcined under H2/Ar mixed gases to prepare the IE IE-NiMo-LR. This electrode exhibits superior hydrogen evolution reaction performance, requiring overpotentials of 59, 116 and 143 mV to achieve current densities of 100, 500 and 1000 mA·cm?2. During the 350 h chronopotentiometry test at current densities of 100 and 500 mA·cm?2, the overpotential remains essentially unchanged. In addition, NiFe-layered double hydroxide grown on Ni foam is also fabricated with the same LIHR method and coupled with IE-NiMo-IR to achieve water splitting. This combination exhibits excellent durability under industrial current density. The energy consumption and production efficiency of the LIHR method are systematically compared with the conventional hydrothermal method. The LIHR method significantly improves the production rate by over 19 times, while consuming only 27.78% of the total energy required by conventional hydrothermal methods to achieve the same production.
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Yang Sha, Menghui Zhu, Kun Huang, Yang Zhang, Francis Moissinac, Zhizhou Zhang, Dongxu Cheng, Paul Mativenga, Zhu Liu. Towards a new avenue for rapid synthesis of electrocatalytic electrodes via laser-induced hydrothermal reaction for water splitting[J]. International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2024, 6(1): 15502
Received: Jun. 9, 2023
Accepted: --
Published Online: Jul. 19, 2024
The Author Email: Sha Yang (yang.sha@manchester.ac.uk)