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Study on active sites of Mn-doped iron selenide on pencil electrode for electrocatalytic water splitting

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Water electrolysis can be used to generate hydrogen, petrochemical fuel with high efficiency for use in power generation and a high gravimetric energy density that can be utilized to battle the exhaustion and pollution produced by current fossil fuels. The use of transition metal chalcogenides (TMC) as a potential alternative to precious metals in the water splitting process has recently sparked much attention. Hence, developing the future of the hydrogen economy depends on how well and reliably non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts can be made for the oxygen evolution reaction. Here, in the present work, a two-step hydrothermal method was employed to construct 3-dimensional (3D) Mn-doped iron selenide with microsphere architecture. The electrode’s distinctive 3D microsphere-like morphology leads to more active sites and faster electron movement over the perfect electrode, making it easier to release O2 bubbles generated during oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysis. As a result, 10% Mn-doped iron selenide outperforms the lower overpotential of (133 mV) at a benchmark current density (j) deposited on the graphite pencil electrode (GPE). Hence, Mn-based electrocatalyst is one of the most intriguing possible applications.

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  • In the present study, 3-dimensional mesoporous Mn-doped iron selenide microspheres morphology was fabricated by employing a two-step hydrothermal route.

  • These remarkable 3-dimensional microsphere structures of 10% Mn-doped iron selenide release the O2 bubbles produced during OER catalysis.

  • The 10% Mn-doped iron selenide exhibits an outstanding OER activity having an ultralow overpotential of 133 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA/cm2.

  • The 10% Mn-doped iron selenide exhibits the highest stability of 30 h in alkaline solutions.

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The authors express their gratitude to Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project (Grant No. PNURSP2022R70), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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    H. A. Alburaih

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712749, South Korea

    Mohd Zahid Ansari

  3. Institute of Chemical Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Abdul Ghafoor Abid, Muhammad Naeem Ashiq, Sumaira Manzoor & Hira Chaudhry

  4. University of Education, Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan Campus, D. G. Khan, 32200, Pakistan

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  5. Institute of Physics, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi Road, Rahim Yar Khan, 64200, Pakistan

    Salma Aman

  6. Center of Solid-State Physics, Quaid-i-Azam Campus, The University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Suleman Waheed

  7. Physics Department, College of Science, Jouf University, P.O. Box 2014, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia

    T. A. Taha

  8. Physics and Engineering Mathematics Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt

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Alburaih, H.A., Ansari, M.Z., Abid, A.G. et al. Study on active sites of Mn-doped iron selenide on pencil electrode for electrocatalytic water splitting. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 106, 1–9 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-022-05961-3

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