Citation: Sai-Nan ZHU, Wei WANG, You-Rong TAO, Xin-Yu ZHANG, Xing-Cai WU, Dun-Ming ZHANG. Co₃O₄/CeO₂ Heterojunction: Preparation and Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Performance in Alkaline Medium[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2021, 37(7): 1337-1344. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2021.157 shu

Co₃O₄/CeO₂ Heterojunction: Preparation and Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Performance in Alkaline Medium

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

Corresponding author: Xing-Cai WU, wuxingca@nju.edu.cn Dun-Ming ZHANG, dmzhang@nju.edu.cn
Received Date: 10 March 2021
Revised Date: 9 May 2021

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A series of Co₃O₄/CeO₂ heterojunctions were prepared by a facile two-step method. Their structure and morphology were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) measurements, respectively. In alkaline media, electrocatalytic oxygen evolution performance test showed that the performance changed with the ratio of Co₃O₄/CeO₂, and there was an optimal value. When the mass ratio of Co₃O₄ and CeO₂ was 58.5%, its overpotential was 347 mV which was lower than that of Co₃O₄ (440 mV), commercial RuO₂ (359 mV) and CeO₂ (570 mV), with Tafel slope of 72.7 mV·dec^-1, and the good stability in 1.0 mol·L^-1 KOH solution at current density of 10 mA·cm^-2. X-ray photoelectronic energy spectra (XPS) confirmed that some of Co₃O₄ electrons transferred to CeO₂, which resulted in increase of the conductivity of the composite materials, the surface oxygen vacancy concentration, and active oxygen species of CeO₂.
- oxides,
- heterojunctions,
- electrocatalysis,
- oxygen evolution reaction,
- alkaline medium
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