In-situ fabrication of Cr doped FeNi LDH on commercial stainless steel for oxygen evolution reaction

Yanhong Lv; Xinrong Deng; Jingjing Ding; Yang Zhou

doi:10.1038/s41598-023-50361-4

In-situ fabrication of Cr doped FeNi LDH on commercial stainless steel for oxygen evolution reaction

Sci Rep. 2024 Jan 9;14(1):902. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50361-4.

Authors

Yanhong Lv^{1

2}, Xinrong Deng³, Jingjing Ding⁴, Yang Zhou⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Physical and Chemistry, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, 410205, Hunan, China. lvyanhong603@163.com.
² College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China. lvyanhong603@163.com.
³ School of Physical and Chemistry, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, 410205, Hunan, China.
⁴ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China.

Abstract

Commercial stainless steel has attracted increasing interest due to their rich content in transition metal elements and corrosion resistance properties. In this work, we design a facile and rapid route to in-situ fabricate the Cr doped FeNi layered double hydroxides nanosheets (LDHs) on modified stainless steel (Cr-FeNi LDH @ ESS) under ambient condition.The ultra small scaled 2D structure only around 20 nm diameter and metal ions with multivalent oxidation state were observed on the in situ fabricated LDHs, which provides high active area and active sites and thus promote excellent oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The Cr-FeNi LDH @ESS electrocatalysts exhibit an over potential of 280 mV at 10 mA cm^-2 and achieves a Tafel slope of 44 mV dec^-1 for OER in the 1.0 M KOH aqueous solution. We anticipate that the operating strategy of our system may promote the development of commercial non-precious productions as the efficient electrocatalysts for energy storage and conversion.

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