Flowery ln2MnSe4 Novel Electrocatalyst Developed via Anion Exchange Strategy for Efficient Water Splitting

Sumaira Manzoor; Sergei V Trukhanov; Mohammad Numair Ansari; Muhammad Abdullah; Atalah Alruwaili; Alex V Trukhanov; Mayeen Uddin Khandaker; Abubakr M Idris; Karam S El-Nasser; Taha AbdelMohaymen Taha

doi:10.3390/nano12132209

Flowery ln₂MnSe₄ Novel Electrocatalyst Developed via Anion Exchange Strategy for Efficient Water Splitting

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Jun 28;12(13):2209. doi: 10.3390/nano12132209.

Authors

Sumaira Manzoor¹, Sergei V Trukhanov², Mohammad Numair Ansari¹, Muhammad Abdullah³, Atalah Alruwaili⁴, Alex V Trukhanov^{2

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6}, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker^{7

8}, Abubakr M Idris^{9

10}, Karam S El-Nasser^{11

12}, Taha AbdelMohaymen Taha^{13

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Chemical Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan.
² Laboratory of Magnetic Films Physics, SSPA "Scientific and Practical Materials Research Centre of NAS of Belarus", 19, P. Brovki Str., 220072 Minsk, Belarus.
³ Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
⁴ Physics Department, College of Science and Arts, Jouf University, Al-Gurayyat P.O. Box 756, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Laboratory of Single Crystal Growth, South Ural State University, 76, Lenin Av., 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia.
⁶ Department of Electronic Materials Technology, National University of Science and Technology MISiS, 119049 Moscow, Russia.
⁷ Centre for Applied Physics and Radiation Technologies, School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Malaysia.
⁸ Department of General Educational Development, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Daffodil International University, DIU Rd, Dhaka 1341, Bangladesh.
⁹ Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁰ Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
¹¹ Chemistry Department, College of Science and Arts, Jouf University, Al-Gurayyat P.O. Box 756, Saudi Arabia.
¹² Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt.
¹³ Physics Department, College of Science, Jouf University, Sakaka P.O. Box 2014, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁴ Physics and Engineering Mathematics Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf 32952, Egypt.

Abstract

Oxygen and hydrogen generated by water electrolysis may be utilized as a clean chemical fuel with high gravimetric energy density and energy conversion efficiency. The hydrogen fuel will be the alternative to traditional fossil fuels in the future, which are near to exhaustion and cause pollution. In the present study, flowery-shaped In₂MnSe₄ nanoelectrocatalyst is fabricated by anion exchange reaction directly grown on nickel foam (NF) in 1.0 M KOH medium for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The physiochemical and electrical characterization techniques are used to investigate the chemical structure, morphology, and electrical properties of the In₂MnSe₄ material. The electrochemical result indicates that synthesized material exhibits a smaller value of Tafel slope (86 mV/dec), lower overpotential (259 mV), and high stability for 37 h with small deterioration in the current density for a long time. Hence, the fabricated material responds with an extraordinary performance for the OER process and for many other applications in the future.

Keywords: In2MnSe4; anion exchange method; electrocatalyst; flower shape; water splitting.

Grants and funding

The authors express their gratitude to Research Center of Advanced Materials, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, for support (award number KKU/RCAMS/22).