Prussian Blue-Derived Iron Phosphide Nanoparticles in a Porous Graphene Aerogel as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Narendra Kumar Alam Venugopal; Shuli Yin; Yinghao Li; Hairong Xue; You Xu; Xiaonian Li; Hongjing Wang; Liang Wang

doi:10.1002/asia.201701616

Prussian Blue-Derived Iron Phosphide Nanoparticles in a Porous Graphene Aerogel as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Chem Asian J. 2018 Mar 16;13(6):679-685. doi: 10.1002/asia.201701616. Epub 2018 Feb 20.

Authors

Narendra Kumar Alam Venugopal¹, Shuli Yin¹, Yinghao Li¹, Hairong Xue¹, You Xu¹, Xiaonian Li¹, Hongjing Wang¹, Liang Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014, Zhejiang, P.R. China.

PMID: 29336117
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701616

Abstract

Tailoring of new hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalyst with earth abundant elements is important for large scale water splitting and hydrogen production. In this work, we present a simple synthetic method for incorporating iron phosphide (FeP) particles into three-dimensional (3D) porous graphene aerogel (GA) structure. The FeP formed in porous 3D GA (FeP/GA) is derived from electroactive Fe hexacyanoferrate (FeHCF). The advantage of incorporating FeP, in the porous 3D graphene network enables high accessibility for HER. As synthesized FeP/GA catalyst shows good electrocatalytic activity for HER in both acidic and alkaline solutions. The developed method can be useful for synthesizing metal hexacyanoferrate derived mono/bimetal phosphide catalyst in porous 3D graphene aerogels.

Keywords: Prussian blue; catalysis; graphene aerogels; hydrogen evolution reaction; metal phosphide.