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Tuning Interfacial Electron Transfer by Anchoring NiFe-LDH on In-situ Grown Cu2O for Enhancing Oxygen Evolution

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Interfacial electron transfer within the electrode is crucial for various electrocatalytic reactions. Herein, we demonstrated that in-situ grown Cu2O on Cu foam as a scaffold to load active ingredients could lower the interfacial contact resistance and promote the electron transfer in oxygen evolution reaction. Meanwhile, the Cu2O/Cu (CCF) facilitates to load active components due to higher surface area resulting from its irregular scattered structure. As a demonstration, Ni–Fe doubles layered hydroxide (NiFe-LDH) coated carbon nanotube spheroidal particles (CNS@NiFe) was anchored by a drop-casting route to assemble CNS@NiFe/CCF hybrid electrodes with the CCF as scaffolds. The CNS@NiFe/CCF electrode afforded an ultralow overpotential of 248 mV at 10 mA cm−2 and a small Tafel slope of 32.9 mV dec−1 with an excellent stability.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21376154 & 21872098). The authors would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to the Analytical and Test Center of Sichuan University.

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    Yuan Kong, Jing Li, Yi Wang, Wei Chu & Zhongqing Liu

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Kong, Y., Li, J., Wang, Y. et al. Tuning Interfacial Electron Transfer by Anchoring NiFe-LDH on In-situ Grown Cu2O for Enhancing Oxygen Evolution. Catal Lett 150, 3049–3057 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-020-03179-y

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