Activating Layered Double Hydroxide with Multivacancies by Memory Effect for Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Production at Neutral pH

Zijian Yuan; Seong Min Bak; Pengsong Li; Yin Jia; Lirong Zheng; Yu Zhou; Lu Bai; Enyuan Hu; Xiao Qing Yang; Zhao Cai; Yongming Sun; Xiaoming Sun

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00867

Activating Layered Double Hydroxide with Multivacancies by Memory Effect for Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Production at Neutral pH

Zijian Yuan, Seong Min Bak, Pengsong Li, Yin Jia, Lirong Zheng, Yu Zhou, Lu Bai, Enyuan Hu, Xiao Qing Yang, Zhao Cai, Yongming Sun, Xiaoming Sun

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Sustainable water-splitting hydrogen production has long been considered one of the most promising energy conversion technologies, but enormous challenges remain: For instance, water electrolysis suffers from high overpotential and over energy consumption under neutral pH conditions. Here, taking advantage of the memory effect of layered double hydroxide (LDH), we report an energy-efficient neutral water electrolyzer material based on LDH with multiple vacancy defects. Benefiting from the improved electrical conductivity, larger electrochemical surface area (ECSA), and faster charge transfer, the NiFe LDH with O, Ni, and Fe vacancies exhibits a low overpotential of 87 mV at 10 mA/cm² for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in a pH 7 buffer electrolyte. Impressively, the as-fabricated vacancy-containing NiFe LDH (v-NiFe LDH) splits water with a current density of 10 mA/cm² at a1.60 V in a two-electrode device, outperforming most other water-splitting catalysts in neutral media. Such an electrolyzer setup could be powered by a commercial 2.0 V solar cell, producing hydrogen at a current density as high as 100 mA/cm².

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1412-1418
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS Energy Letters
Volume	4
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00867
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jun 14

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Funding Information:
The authors thank Mr. Quan Gan at Caltech for helpful discussion. This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China, the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in the University, and the long-term subsidy mechanism from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education of P. R. China. S.-M. Bak, E. Hu, and X.-Q. Yang at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) were supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technology Office of the U.S. Department of Energy through the Advanced Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program, including Battery500 Consortium under contract DE-SC0012704. This research used beamlines 8-ID (ISS) and 28-ID-2 (XPD) of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DESC0012704. Z. Cai thanks the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2018M640694). We also thank 1W1B beamline station of Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

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