Abstract
In this work, Ni nanoparticles (NPs), with nominal metallic loading of 20 wt%, were deposited on graphene-based materials (GMs) doped with nitrogen and sulphur, in order to study their electrocatalytic activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline medium. Different chemical reducing agents were employed to synthesize the catalysts. Results indicate that the presence of heteroatoms in the GMs influences the activity of both the GMs and the Ni-based catalysts. Thus, best results were obtained for catalyst containing nitrogen and sulphur for the ORR which favours the direct four-electron pathway, whereas for the HER, the highest performance was observed for N-doped materials.
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