Orange-peel derived carbon-loaded low content ruthenium nanoparticles as ultra-high performance alkaline water HER electrocatalysts
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Yang Teng, Lu Zhou, Yi-Zhi Chen, Jun-Zhe Gan, Ye Xi, Hai-Lang Jia
Carbon materials have a very wide range of applications in the field of electrocatalysis, both as catalyst bodies and as excellent supports for catalysts. In this work, we obtained a graphitic-like orange-peel derived carbon (OPC) material through pre-carbonization and KOH activation strategies using discarded orange-peel as a raw material. OPC has good graphitization characteristics and a few-layer structure, making it very suitable as a support for nanoparticle catalysts. In order to compare the performance of OPC, we used commercial graphene as the benchmark, made two carbon materials uniformly loaded with ruthenium nanoparticles under the same conditions, and obtained two HER catalysts (Ru/OPC and Ru/rGO). The results indicate that Ru/OPC has excellent HER catalytic performance under alkaline conditions, not only superior to Ru/rGO, but also surpassing commercial Pt/C. In 1 M KOH; the overpotential of Ru/OPC is only 3 mV at −10 mA cm−2, greatly exceeding those of Ru/rGO (100 mV) and Pt/C (31 mV). Under high current density (j), the performance of Ru/OPC is even better; the overpotential is 79 mV and 136 mV at −100 mA cm−2 and −200 mA cm−2, respectively. More importantly, Ru/OPC also has a very high TOF and long-term stability, with a TOF of up to 10.62 H2 s−1 at an overpotential of 100 mV and almost no attenuation after 72 h of operation at −50 mA cm−2. Ru/OPC also exhibits good catalytic performance under acidic conditions, significantly superior to that of Ru/rGO. For Ru/OPC, the overpotential is 86 mV, 167 mV and 214 mV at −10 mA cm−2, −100 mA cm−2 and −200 mA cm−2, respectively. Under the same conditions, the overpotential of Ru/rGO is 143 mV, 253 mV and 306 mV at −10 mA cm−2, −100 mA cm−2 and −200 mA cm−2, respectively.
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