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Composition Engineering of Amorphous Nickel Boride Nanoarchitectures Enabling Highly Efficient Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

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Developing advanced electrocatalysts with exceptional two electron (2e−) selectivity, activity, and stability is crucial for driving the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to produce hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Herein, a composition engineering… Click to show full abstract

Developing advanced electrocatalysts with exceptional two electron (2e−) selectivity, activity, and stability is crucial for driving the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to produce hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Herein, a composition engineering strategy is proposed to flexibly regulate the intrinsic activity of amorphous nickel boride nanoarchitectures for efficient 2e− ORR by oriented reduction of Ni2+ with different amounts of BH4−. Among borides, the amorphous NiB2 delivers the 2e− selectivity close to 99% at 0.4 V and over 93% in a wide potential range, together with a negligible activity decay under prolonged time. Notably, an ultrahigh H2O2 production rate of 4.753 mol gcat−1 h−1 is achieved upon assembling NiB2 in the practical gas diffusion electrode. The combination of X‐ray absorption and in situ Raman spectroscopy, as well as transient photovoltage measurements with density functional theory, unequivocally reveal that the atomic ratio between Ni and B induces the local electronic structure diversity, allowing optimization of the adsorption energy of Ni toward *OOH and reducing of the interfacial charge‐transfer kinetics to preserve the OO bond.

Keywords: hydrogen peroxide; composition engineering; nickel boride; boride nanoarchitectures; amorphous nickel

Journal Title: Advanced Materials
Year Published: 2022

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