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Towards the Rational Design of Stable Electrocatalysts for Green Hydrogen Production

Abstract

Now, it is time to set up reliable water electrolysis stacks with active and robust electro‐ catalysts to produce green hydrogen. Compared with catalytic kinetics, much less attention has been paid to catalyst stability, and the weak understanding of the catalyst deactivation mechanism restricts the design of robust electrocatalysts. Herein, we discuss the issues of catalysts’ stability evaluation and characterization, and the degradation mechanism. The systematic understanding of the degradation mechanism would help us to formulate principles for the design of stable catalysts. Particularly, we found that the dissolution rate for different 3d transition metals differed greatly: Fe dissolves 114 and 84 times faster than Co and Ni. Based on this trend, we designed Fe@Ni and FeNi@Ni core‐shell structures to achieve excellent stability in a 1 A cm−2 current density, as well as good catalytic activity at the same time

Funding source: This work was supported by the Science and Technology Projects of the Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM).
Related subjects: Production & Supply Chain
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2022-02-08
2024-11-02
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