DOI: 10.1063/5.0178109 ISSN: 0003-6951
An island-like Re-containing phytate bimetal nanocluster catalyst for exceptional overall glucose electrolysis hydrogen production
Lin Zhang, Gaoyuan Li, Shuyan Chen, Han Yan, Shuaishuai Zhao, Zixuan Huang, Yiqing Zhai, Liping Ding, Qi Li, Yanqing Wang- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
In this paper, an island-like Re-containing phytate bimetal nanocluster catalyst was uniformly prepared on nickel foam by the chemical induced deposition@self-assembly method. The existence of valence-enriched Re and hydrophilic phytate molecules will improve the active area, charge transfer rate, and wetting ability of the intrinsic NiP catalyst. The bifunctional NiRe-IP6 catalyst can drive 100 mA/cm2 glucose oxidation reaction (GOR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) processes by only 1.28 V [vs reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE)] and −0.115 V (vs RHE) in alkaline glucose electrolyte, respectively, outperforming almost all the as-reported GOR/HER bifunctional catalysts, especially at high current density.