Abstract
Cobalt (II, III) oxide (Co3O4) has been widely studied and applied in various fields, however, it suffers from slow mass and electron transfer during applications. Herein, crumpled Co3O4 and Co3O4/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with tunable 2D-in-3D structures were prepared by combining spray pyrolysis with a graphene oxide (GO) template. The 2D Co3O4 nanoplates were interconnected with each other to form a 3D ball with many wrinkles, resulting in defect enrichment on the abundant boundaries of the nanosheets, which provided more active sites for catalytic reactions. In addition, the unique 2D-in-3D structure allowed fast mass transfer and structural stability. Furthermore, the assembled structure could be understood as being composed of uniformly distributed oxygen-containing functional groups pinning metal cations on the GO surface through electrostatic interaction, and the 2D structure of the GO enabled the in situ converted Co3O4 to grow along the GO surface with excellent dispersion. Taking advantage of the above, the Co3O4/rGO balls demonstrated an excellent oxygen evolution reaction performance, an overpotential of 298 mV at a current density of 10.0 mA cm−2 and a current density of 115.9 mA cm−2 at the overpotential of η = 500 mV.
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