A highly active and stable 3D dandelion spore-structured self-supporting Ir-based electrocatalyst for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis fabricated using structural reconstruction

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Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE), the most energy-efficient low-temperature electrolysis method, is promising for converting intermittent renewable energies into stable hydrogen chemical energy. However, the cumulative corrosive environment resulting from the acidic conditions required and the positive half-cell potentials imply that only materials having high intrinsic activity and stability can be used. Herein, we propose catalysts and a corresponding fabrication method that meets these requirements. A 3D dandelion spore-structured self-supporting IrNi electrocatalyst is directly fabricated on a porous transport layer through the adsorbed H-induced co-electrodeposition of a core-shell IrNi-Ir structure. Subsequent dealloying generates a highly porous nanostructured Ir-based framework robust to the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in a wide pH range. Specifically, it exhibited overpotentials of 248 mV (OER) and 15 mV (HER) at +/- 10 mA cm(-2) in an acidic electrolyte with exceptional stability even after constant operation at 200 mA cm(-2) for 50 h (OER) or 5000 potential cycles (HER). When used as a bifunctional catalyst (0.67 mg cm(-2)) for PEMWE, 6.5 A cm(-2) was obtained at a cell voltage of 2.0 V. The degradation rate was only 1.58 mV h(-1) under extremely harsh test conditions of 2 A cm(-2) for 100 h, thus verifying the exceptional stability of a single cell. This is the first report of bifunctional catalysts with such high performance and stability fabricated using a simple method, and this work can aid the commercialization of PEMWE.
Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Issue Date
2022-08
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Citation

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, v.15, no.8, pp.3449 - 3461

ISSN
1754-5692
DOI
10.1039/d2ee01042a
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/297958
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CBE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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