A novel synergistic confinement strategy for controlled synthesis of high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts

Huining Li; Han Zhu; Qikai Shen; Shaoda Huang; Shuanglong Lu; Piming Ma; Weifu Dong; Mingliang Du

doi:10.1039/d0cc07345h

A novel synergistic confinement strategy for controlled synthesis of high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Mar 14;57(21):2637-2640. doi: 10.1039/d0cc07345h. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

Authors

Huining Li¹, Han Zhu, Qikai Shen, Shaoda Huang, Shuanglong Lu, Piming Ma, Weifu Dong, Mingliang Du

Affiliation

¹ Country Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, P. R. China. zhysw@jiangnan.edu.cn du@jiangnan.edu.cn.

PMID: 33587049
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc07345h

Abstract

We report a synergistic confinement strategy for the synthesis of high-entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs). The carbon nitride substrate and polydopamine coating layer synergistically confine the growth of NPs and contribute to the formation of homogeneous HEA-NPs. The HEA-NPs exhibit superior electrocatalytic performance for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. This work demonstrates the great potential of HEA-NPs for electrocatalysis.