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Interface Engineering of Oxygen-Vacancy-Rich VO-NiFe2O4@Ni2P Heterostructure for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction

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Rational construction of high-performance and robust electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is highly desirable and challenging. Herein, we report a facile strategy to fabricate a novel VO-NiFe2O4@Ni2P heterostructure consisting of the host NiFe2O4 and in situ generated Ni2P through the selective phosphorylation method. The as-prepared VO-NiFe2O4@Ni2P catalyst exhibited remarkable OER activity with a much low overpotential of 220 mV at 10 mA cm−2, which is superior to the commercial IrO2 catalyst. Furthermore, VO-NiFe2O4@Ni2P, when directly used as bifunctional electrodes for overall water splitting, exhibited a low voltage of 1.52 V at 10 mA cm−2 and remarkable durability for 40 h. Such excellent OER performance is mainly contributed to the interfacial effects between NiFe2O4 and Ni2P, and the presence of rich oxygen vacancies. This work provides a promising strategy for the development of highly efficient heterostructure electrocatalysts toward OER.

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Tian, W., Li, L. & Zhu, G. Interface Engineering of Oxygen-Vacancy-Rich VO-NiFe2O4@Ni2P Heterostructure for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Catal Lett 154, 593–600 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-023-04301-6

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