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A Cu3P@NiFe-MOF Hybrid as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions

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For hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, the price of precious metals and their long-time testing stability limit their range of use and increase the difficulty of commercialization. Thus, it is necessary to use non-noble metal materials with excellent activity and stability to replace noble metal materials as electrocatalysts. Herein, an efficient and durable electrocatalyst consisting of Cu3P@NiFe-MOF is synthesized by hydrothermal method. Specially, the as-prepared Cu3P@NiFe-MOF-4 delivery an overpotential of 226 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm−2, and it also has a very low Tafel slope and a high double layer capacitance.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2042021kf0077), Start-up funds for provincial and municipal “double first-class” construction special talents (600460001) as well as China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M612496).

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  1. School of Printing and Packaging, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

    Erlei Li, Qiuxiang Mou, Jun Ma, Xinghai Liu, Pingping Zhao & Houbin Li

  2. College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

    Zhenhang Xu & Gongzhen Cheng

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Li, E., Mou, Q., Xu, Z. et al. A Cu3P@NiFe-MOF Hybrid as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions. Catal Lett 152, 3825–3832 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-021-03865-5

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