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Facile synthesis of nickel diselenide particles for alkaline oxygen evolution by atmospheric pressure hydrothermal method

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Nickel-based selenides have attracted widespread attention as promising electrocatalysts for water splitting. This work proposes a novel and facile method to fabricate an efficient electrocatalyst based on morphological controlled nickel diselenide nanoparticles using L-cysteine (NiSe2-L) via atmospheric pressure hydrothermal. The NiSe2-L was prepared inside a round-bottom flask under stirring conditions in an oil bath at 100 ℃ for 4 h. This method no longer required posttreatment, just used L-cysteine for morphological control, and the reaction time was shortened to only 4 h. As expected, the NiSe2-L electrode exhibited good catalytic performance towards oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with an overpotential of 398 mV at the current density of 100 mA cm−2 and maintained a Faraday efficiency of up to 99% in 1 M KOH. Moreover, this electrode showed long-term stability with small overpotential increases (~ 16 mV) at 100 mA cm−2 after 5000 cycles of CV scans. Therefore, this work provided a facile synthesis method of nickel-based selenides with potential use value for OER in alkaline solutions.

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The authors received financial support provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 21673167), the open project of Hubei Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Applications (No. FZXCL202110), and the start-up fund of Wuhan Textile University (NO. 20200630 and 20200828).

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Xu, X., Li, C., Li, N. et al. Facile synthesis of nickel diselenide particles for alkaline oxygen evolution by atmospheric pressure hydrothermal method. Ionics 29, 313–322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-022-04807-w

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