Mo/P doped NiFeSe as bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting

Abstract

Designing high-efficiency catalysts for overall water splitting is critical to reduce the cost of hydrogen fuel as a clean and renewable energy source in future society. In this work, a Mo-, P-codoped NiFeSe was successfully synthesized on nickel foam (NF) by one-step electrodeposition. Through the doping strategy, the conductivity can be well promoted, and the production of nanosheets on the catalyst surface and active phases during hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) provided much more active sites, which leaded to efficient HER/OER performances of as-synthesized Mo-, P-codoped NiFeSe catalysts, i.e., a low overpotential of 100 mV/200 mV at current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 1.0 M KOH with stability of 95 h/60 h, respectively. It only required 1.53 V to deliver a current density of 10 mA cm−2 in overall water splitting and maintained outstanding durability for 100 h. This work is beneficial to future design of high efficient and low-cost bifunctional catalysts for overall water splitting.