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Simultaneous Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions using Free-Standing Nitrogen-Doped-Carbon-Co/CoOx Nanofiber Electrodes Decorated with Palladium Nanoparticles

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Designing efficient electrode materials for electrochemical water splitting is the most critical challenge for next-generation hydrogen fuel production. This study describes the development of free-standing nitrogen-doped carbon nanofiber (N-CNF) electrodes that incorporated cobalt/cobalt oxide (Co/ CoOx) nanoparticles (NPs) and were decorated with palladium NPs (Pd NPs). These free-standing electrodes displayed high electrocatalytic activity during electrochemical water splitting, and were fabricated in three steps: (i) solution electrospinning of polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/cobalt acetate nanofiber mats; (ii) PAN/cobalt acetate nanofiber mat peroxidation and stabilization in air atmosphere followed by pyrolysis (carbonation) in nitrogen atmosphere; and (iii) decoration of the electrode surface with 5 and 10 nm Pd NPs by controlled atomic layer deposition (ALD) (100 and 200 cycles, respectively). The N-CNF-Co/CoOx-Pd electrode performance was tested in simultaneous hydrogen/oxygen evolution reactions (HER/OER) with an alkaline electrolyte solution (1 M KOH). The electrodes were as electroactive as Pt and IrO2 (reference electrodes) for overall electrochemical water splitting. The most efficient electrode displayed very interesting overpotential (100 mV and 160 mV @ j = 10 mA cm-2 for HER and OER, respectively), Tafel slope (33 and 113 mV dec-1), and exchange current density (1.15 and 22.4 mA cm-2) values. Interestingly, electrodes with the smallest Pd NP size (5 nm/100 ALD cycles) showed higher electrocatalytic activity for HER and OER than electrodes coated with bigger particles (10 nm/200 ALD cycles) and the reference Pt electrode. The effect of Co/CoOx NP encapsulation in the graphitic layers of N-CNFs and coating with Pd NPs on the electrode electrocatalytic activity are discussed in detail.
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hal-03715540 , version 1 (06-07-2022)

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Ahmed Barhoum, Heba H El-Maghrabi, Amr A Nada, Syreina Sayegh, Stéphanie Roualdès, et al.. Simultaneous Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions using Free-Standing Nitrogen-Doped-Carbon-Co/CoOx Nanofiber Electrodes Decorated with Palladium Nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9 (33), pp.17724-17739. ⟨10.1039/D1TA03704H⟩. ⟨hal-03715540⟩
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