Preparation of Electrode Materials of Amorphous Co-W-B/Carbon Cloth Composite and their Electro-catalytic Performance for Electrolysis of Water

doi:10.11901/1005.3093.2019.397

Chinese Journal of Materials Research

2020, Vol. 34

Issue (4): 263-271 DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2019.397

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Preparation of Electrode Materials of Amorphous Co-W-B/Carbon Cloth Composite and their Electro-catalytic Performance for Electrolysis of Water

SHI Jialun, SHENG Minqi(

), WU Qiong, LV Fan

School of Iron and Steel, Soochow University, Suzhou 215137, China

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SHI Jialun, SHENG Minqi, WU Qiong, LV Fan. Preparation of Electrode Materials of Amorphous Co-W-B/Carbon Cloth Composite and their Electro-catalytic Performance for Electrolysis of Water. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2020, 34(4): 263-271.

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Amorphous Co-W-B was deposited on carbon cloth (CC) to fabricate a self-supported Co-W-B/CC composite electrode by using chemical reduction method. Electrochemical analysis show that Co-W-B/CC materials exhibited excellent electrocatalytic performance for electrolysis of water in 1 mol/L NaOH solution. Among others, the Co-50W-B/CC (the ratio of [WO₄^2-]/([WO₄^2-]+[Co²⁺]) is 50% in the synthesis process) shows the best electrocatalytic activity, i.e. for the Co-50W-B/CC catalyst, when the low overpotential is 0.394 V by ampere density of 10mA/cm², the corresponding Tafel slope is 96.8 mV/dec for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), whilst when the overpotential is 0.098 V by ampere density of -10 mA/cm², the corresponding Tafel slope is 117.4 mV/dec for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). EIS analysis result implies that the Co-50W-B/CC possesses nearly the same catalytic activity as the noble metal-based materials at low current density, which can mainly be attributed to both the high intrinsic catalytic activity and the large electrochemical active area.

Key words: composite Co-W-B/CC composite electrode amorphous material oxygen evolution reaction (OER) hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysis

Received: 15 August 2019

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Fund: National MCF Energy R & D Program(No. 2018YFE0306105);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 51504104)

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Fig.1 SEM image of CC (a); SEM images of Co-50W-B/CC (b, c)、(c-inset) EDX energy spectrum of Co-50W-B/CC and EDX-mapping of Co-50W-B/CC (d)

Fig.2 Effect of the χ_W% ([WO₄^2-]/([WO₄^2-]+[Co²⁺]) mole percentage) on the content of elements in Co-W-B (a) and XRD patterns of CC and Co-W-B/CC samples(b)

Fig.3 SEM image of Co-66W-B/CC (a) and Co-75W-B/CC (b)

Fig.4 OER process:LSV curves of Co-W-B/CC samples (the inset figure is the enlarged view of 1.50~1.75V_vsRHE) (a)， LSV curves of Co-50W-B/CC, CC, Co-B/CC and RuO₂ (b)， Tafel slopes of Co-50W-B/CC, CC, Co-B/CC and RuO₂ (c)， EIS plots of Co-W-B/CC samples (d)， EIS plots of Co-50W-B/CC, CC, Co-B/CC and RuO₂ (e)，and C_dl-OER and j_0-real-OER of samples (f)

Fig.5 HER process: LSV curves of Co-W-B/CC samples (the inset figure is the enlarged view of -0.10~-0.30V_vsRHE) (a), LSV curves of Co-50W-B/CC, CC, Co-B/CC and Pt/C (b), Tafel slopes of Co-50W-B/CC, CC, Co-B/CC and Pt/C (c), EIS plots of Co-W-B/CC samples (d), EIS plots of Co-50W-B/CC, CC, Co-B/CC and RuO₂ (e) and C_dl-HERand j_0-real-HER of samples (f)

Fig.6 LSV curves of Co-50W-B/CC before and after 1000 potential cycles in OER process (a), LSV curves of Co-50W-B/CC before and after 1000 potential cycles in HER process (b), V-t plots of Co-50W-B/CC at 30 mA/cm² and -30 mA/cm² (c) and comparison for the electrocatalytic water splitting activity of Co-50W-B/CC(+)??Co-50W-B/CC(-) and RuO₂(+)??Pt/C(-) (d)

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