Exploring high‐efficiency, stable, and cost‐effective bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting is greatly desirable and challenging. Herein, a newly designed hybrid catalyst with Cr‐doped FeNi–P nanoparticles encapsulated into N‐doped carbon nanotubes (Cr‐doped FeNi–P/NCN) with unprecedented electrocatalytic activity is developed by a simple one‐step heating treatment. The as‐synthesized Cr‐doped FeNi–P/NCN with moderate Cr doping exhibits admirable oxygen evolution reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction activities with overpotentials of 240 and 190 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 1 m KOH solution. When used in overall water splitting as a bifunctional catalyst, it needs only 1.50 V to give a current density of 10 mA cm−2, which is superior to its typically integrated Pt/C and RuO2 counterparts (1.54 V @ 10 mA cm−2). Density functional theory calculation confirms that Cr doping into a FeNi‐host can effectively alter the relative Gibbs adsorption energy and reduces the theoretical overpotential. Additionally, the synergetic effects between Cr‐doped FeNi–P nanoparticles and NCNs are regarded as significant contributors to accelerate charge transfer and promote electrocatalytic activity in hybrid catalysts.
Exploring semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is desirable to design optoelectronic devices owing to the easily tunable emission wavelengths and photophysical stability.
MXenes
are two-dimensional metal carbides or nitrides that are
currently proposed in many applications thanks to their unique attributes
including high conductivity and accessible surface. Recently, a synthetic
route was proposed to prepare MXenes from the molten salt etching
of precursors allowing for the preparation of MXene (denoted as MS-MXenes,
for molten salt MXene) with tuned surface termination groups, resulting
in improved electrochemical properties. However, further delamination
of as-prepared multilayer MS-MXenes still remains a major challenge.
Here, we report on the successful exfoliation of MS-Ti3C2T
x
via the
intercalation of the organic molecule TBAOH (tetrabutylammonium hydroxide),
followed by sonication to separate the layers. The treatment time
could be adapted to tune the wetting behavior of the MS-Ti3C2T
x
. As a result, a self-supported
Cl-terminated MXene film could be prepared by filtration. Finally,
MS-Ti3C2T
x
used
as a Li-ion battery anode could achieve a high specific capacity of
225 mAh g–1 at a 1C rate together with an excellent
rate capability of 95 mAh g–1 at 167C. These results
also show that tuning of the surface chemistry of MXene is of key
importance to this field with the likely result being increased electrochemical
performance.
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