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Co-electrodeposition of Ni-La coating on Ni foam for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction

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Electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen is a promising route to provide green hydrogen on a large scale. To explore non-noble metal electrocatalysts with high performance is still a challenge. Herein, a one-step electrodeposition way is developed to construct the heterostructural (NiO-La2O3)/(Ni-La)/NiO/Ni electrocatalysts on Ni foam. The dark Ni-La coating was prepared by co-electrodeposition from an aqueous solution containing LaCl3 and NiCl2 with a molar concentration ratio of 1:5. Among these heterostructural Ni-based electrocatalysts, an excellent HER activity is achieved: an overpotential of 22 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 1 M KOH solution. It is demonstrated that the introduction of La significantly reduces the overpotential for HER. The higher the La content in the Ni-La coating of these electrocatalysts, the better the electrocatalytic HER performance was exhibited. This work provides a facile and inexpensive route to prepare Ni-La coating on electrodes in an aqueous solution.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (22102162), Discipline Development Foundation of Science and Technology on Surface Physics and Chemistry Laboratory (XKFZ202009), National Key Research and Development Program (2017YFE0301506), and Foundation from Institute of Materials CAEP (TP01201603, TP03201703).

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Hu, Y., Xu, J., Zhang, T. et al. Co-electrodeposition of Ni-La coating on Ni foam for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. Transit Met Chem 48, 125–133 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11243-023-00529-8

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