Abstract
Highly active, stable electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is sincerely required for the practical application of water splitting to get rid from the sluggish reaction kinetics and the stability issue. Here, Co3O4 is studied as OER catalyst and to improve the electrocatalytic activity, carbon is chosen as the conducting support. A simple and cost-effective synthetic route is developed for the synthesis of Co3O4 on carbon support following hydrothermal route using various hydrolyzing agents. The heterostructure ‘Co3O4/C’ perform well in OER as a non-precious metal catalyst. The best Co3O4/C electrocatalyst can generate 10 and 30 mA/cm2 current densities upon application of 1.623 V and 1.678 V vs. RHE whereas, bare Co3O4 can generate current density of 10 and 30 mA/cm2 upon application of 1.677 and 1.754 V vs. RHE. Carbon in the heterostructure helps to improve the conductivity and at the same time enhances the charge transfer ability which further leads to increase current density and stability to the catalyst. Co3O4/C can generate unaltered current density up to 1000 cycles.
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