Feasible construction of cathode materials with highly dispersed active sites can extend the tri‐ple‐phase boundaries,and therefore leading to enhanced electrode kinetics for CO_(2) electrolysis in solid oxide elect...Feasible construction of cathode materials with highly dispersed active sites can extend the tri‐ple‐phase boundaries,and therefore leading to enhanced electrode kinetics for CO_(2) electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cell(SOEC).Herein,highly dispersed nickel species with low loading(1.0 wt%)were trapped within the La_(0.8)Sr_(0.2)FeO_(3)–δ‐Ce_(0.8)Sm_(0.2)O_(2)–δvia a facial mechanical milling ap‐proach,which demonstrated excellent CO_(2) electrolysis performance.The highly dispersed nickel species can significantly alter the electronic structures of the LSF‐SDC without affecting its porous network and facilitate oxygen vacancy formation,thus greatly promote the CO_(2) electrolysis perfor‐mance.The highest current density of 1.53 A·cm^(-2) could be achieved when operated under 800℃ at 1.6 V,which is about 91%higher than the LSF‐SDC counterpart.展开更多
Low-cost nickels can be used as cocatalyst to improve the performance of photocatalysts,which may be promising materials applied in the field of photocatalytic water splitting.In this study,different nickel species Ni...Low-cost nickels can be used as cocatalyst to improve the performance of photocatalysts,which may be promising materials applied in the field of photocatalytic water splitting.In this study,different nickel species Ni,Ni(OH)2,NiO,NiOx,and NiS are used to modified titanium dioxide(P25)to investigate their roles on the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activities.UV-visible,X-ray diffraction(XRD),Brunner-Emmet-Teller(BET)measurements,transmission electron microscopy(TEM),X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS)analysis etc.are employed to characterize the physical and chemical properties of catalysts.The results indicate that all the nickel species can improve the photocatalytic hydrogen production activity of P25.The P25 modified with NiOx and NiS has more superior photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activities than those modified with other nickel species.The reason for this is that NiOx and NiS can form p-n junctions with P25 respectively.In addition,NiOx can be selectively deposited on the active sites of P25 via in situ the photodeposition method and NiS is beneficial for H+reacting with photo-excited electrons.展开更多
文摘Feasible construction of cathode materials with highly dispersed active sites can extend the tri‐ple‐phase boundaries,and therefore leading to enhanced electrode kinetics for CO_(2) electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cell(SOEC).Herein,highly dispersed nickel species with low loading(1.0 wt%)were trapped within the La_(0.8)Sr_(0.2)FeO_(3)–δ‐Ce_(0.8)Sm_(0.2)O_(2)–δvia a facial mechanical milling ap‐proach,which demonstrated excellent CO_(2) electrolysis performance.The highly dispersed nickel species can significantly alter the electronic structures of the LSF‐SDC without affecting its porous network and facilitate oxygen vacancy formation,thus greatly promote the CO_(2) electrolysis perfor‐mance.The highest current density of 1.53 A·cm^(-2) could be achieved when operated under 800℃ at 1.6 V,which is about 91%higher than the LSF‐SDC counterpart.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.21773153 and 31700311)the Collaborative Innovation Project of Jiangxi Academy of Sciences(2017-XTPH1-05)the Post-Doctoral Project of Jiangxi Academy of Sciences.
文摘Low-cost nickels can be used as cocatalyst to improve the performance of photocatalysts,which may be promising materials applied in the field of photocatalytic water splitting.In this study,different nickel species Ni,Ni(OH)2,NiO,NiOx,and NiS are used to modified titanium dioxide(P25)to investigate their roles on the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activities.UV-visible,X-ray diffraction(XRD),Brunner-Emmet-Teller(BET)measurements,transmission electron microscopy(TEM),X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS)analysis etc.are employed to characterize the physical and chemical properties of catalysts.The results indicate that all the nickel species can improve the photocatalytic hydrogen production activity of P25.The P25 modified with NiOx and NiS has more superior photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activities than those modified with other nickel species.The reason for this is that NiOx and NiS can form p-n junctions with P25 respectively.In addition,NiOx can be selectively deposited on the active sites of P25 via in situ the photodeposition method and NiS is beneficial for H+reacting with photo-excited electrons.
