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Hierarchical coupling effect in hollow Ni/NiFe2O4-CNTs microsphere via spray-drying for enhanced oxygen evolution electrocatalysis

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Design and fabrication of cost-effective transition metal and their oxides-based nanocomposites are of paramount significance for metal-air batteries and water-splitting. However, the traditional optimized designs for nanostructure are complicated, low-efficient and underperform for wide-scale applications. Herein, a novel hierarchical framework of hollow Ni/NiFe2O4-CNTs composite microsphere forcibly-assembled by zero-dimensional (0D) Ni/NiFe2O4 nanoparticle (< 16 nm) and one-dimensional (1D) self-supporting CNTs was fabricated successfully. Benefitted from the unique nanostructure, such monohybrids can achieve remarkable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance in alkaline media with a low overpotential and superior durability, which exceeds most of the commercial catalysts based on IrO2/RuO2 or other non-noble metal nanomaterials. The enhanced OER performance of Ni/NiFe2O4-CNTs composite is mainly ascribed to the increased catalytic activity and the optimized conductivity induced by the effects of strong hierarchical coupling and charge transfers between CNTs and Ni/NiFe2O4 nanoparticles. These effects are greatly boosted by the polarized heterojunction interfaces confirmed by electron holography. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation indicates the epitaxial Ni further enriches the intrinsic electrons contents of NiFe2O4 and thus accelerates absorption/desorption kinetics of OER intermediates. This work hereby paves a facile route to construct the hollow composite microsphere with excellent OER electrocatalytic activity based on non-noble metal oxide/CNTs.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (973 Project) (No. 2018YFA0209102) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11727807, 51725101, 51672050, and 61790581)

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    Xuefeng Yu, Guanyu Chen, Ke Pei, Yunhao Zhao, Wenbin You, Lei Wang, Jie Zhang, Linshen Xing, Jingjun Ding, Guangzhou Ding, Min Wang & Renchao Che

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Yu, X., Chen, G., Wang, Y. et al. Hierarchical coupling effect in hollow Ni/NiFe2O4-CNTs microsphere via spray-drying for enhanced oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. Nano Res. 13, 437–446 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2626-y

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