Design of CoMoCe-Oxide Nanostructured Composites as Robust Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Water Electrolysis Overall Efficiency
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Materials, Volume 18, issue 17
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The development of ternary metal oxide electrocatalysts with optimized electronic structures and surface morphologies has emerged as one of the effective strategies to improve the performance of electrochemical water splitting. In this work, ternary CoMoCe (CMC)-oxide electrocatalysts were successfully synthesized on nickel foam substrates via a hydrothermal technique and employed for their catalytic activity in an alkaline electrolyte. For comparison, binary counterparts (CoMo, CoCe, and MoCe) were also fabricated under similar conditions. The synthesized catalysts’ electrodes exhibited diverse surface architectures, including microporous-flake hybrids, ultrathin flakes, nanoneedle-assembled microspheres, and randomly oriented hexagonal structures. Among them, the ternary CoMoCe-oxide electrode exhibited outstanding bifunctional electrocatalytic activity, delivering low overpotentials of 124 mV for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) at −10 mA cm−2, and 340 mV for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at 100 mA cm−2, along with excellent durability. Furthermore, in full water-splitting configuration, the CMC||CMC and RuO2||CMC electrolyzers required cell voltages of 1.69 V and 1.57 V, respectively, to reach a current density of 10 mA cm−2. Remarkably, the CMC-based electrolyzer reached an industrially relevant current density of 1000 mA cm−2 at a cell voltage of 2.18 V, maintaining excellent stability over 100 h of continuous operation. These findings underscore the impact of an optimized electronic structure and surface architecture on design strategies for high-performance ternary metal oxide electrocatalysts. Herein, a robust and straightforward approach is comprehensively presented for fabricating highly efficient ternary metal-oxide catalyst electrodes, offering significant potential for scalable water splitting.Description
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Inamdar, A I, Salunke, A S, Patil, J V, Mali, S S, Hong, C K, Ali, B, Patil, S A, Shrestha, N K, Lee, S & Cho, S 2025, 'Design of CoMoCe-Oxide Nanostructured Composites as Robust Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Water Electrolysis Overall Efficiency', Materials, vol. 18, no. 17, 4052. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18174052