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Self-supported phosphorus-doped CoMoO4 rod bundles for efficient hydrogen evolution

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Herein, a series of phosphorus-doped CoMoO4 rod bundles electrocatalysts on 3D nickel foams have been successfully synthesized and exploited as efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalyst in 1 M KOH. The incorporation of phosphorus into CoMoO4 can significantly promote the HER activity, and the CoMoO4 bundles phosphorized at 350 °C exhibited the optimum activity, which only required low overpotentials of 56 and 148 mV to deliver cathodic current densities of 10 mA cm−2 and 100 mA cm−2, respectively. This electrode also presented considerable long-term electrochemical stability with negligible delay after 30 h operation and 3000 accelerated cyclic voltammetry cycles. Our study provides a superior earth-abundant catalyst for efficient HER in alkaline media, which also suggests that P doping engineering is an effective way to boost the HER activity of transition metal-based oxides.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21773048), Heilongjiang Natural Science Foundation (A2015005) and University Nursing Program for Young Scholar with Creative Talent in Heilongjiang Province (UNPYSCT-2015052).

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    Xiao Ma, Shuang Liang, Dongmei Dai & Lingling Xu

  2. School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Bo Wei, Mengke Yuan, Jingwei Li & Yanyan Wu

  3. School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, UK

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Ma, X., Wei, B., Yuan, M. et al. Self-supported phosphorus-doped CoMoO4 rod bundles for efficient hydrogen evolution. J Mater Sci 55, 6502–6512 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-04448-2

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