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Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

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2018

Electrochemical

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Construction Of Hierarchical Mose2 Hollow Structures And Its Effecton Electrochemical Energy Storage And Conversion, Sha Hu, Qingqing Jiang, Shuoping Ding, Ye Liu, Zuozuo Wu, Zhengxi Huang, Tengfei Zhou, Zaiping Guo, Juncheng Hu Jan 2018

Construction Of Hierarchical Mose2 Hollow Structures And Its Effecton Electrochemical Energy Storage And Conversion, Sha Hu, Qingqing Jiang, Shuoping Ding, Ye Liu, Zuozuo Wu, Zhengxi Huang, Tengfei Zhou, Zaiping Guo, Juncheng Hu

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

Metal selenides have attracted increased attentionas promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storageand conversion systems including metal-ion batteries and watersplitting. However, their practical application is greatly hindered bycollapse of the microstructure, thus leading to performance fading.Tuning the structure at nanoscale of these materials is an effectivestrategy to address the issue. Herein, we craft MoSe2withhierarchical hollow structures via a facile bubble-assistedsolvothermal method. The temperature-related variations of thehollow interiors are studied, which can be presented as solid, yolk−shell, and hollow spheres, respectively. Under the simultaneousaction of the distinctive hollow structures and interconnectionsamong the nanosheets, more intimate contacts between MoSe2and electrolyte can be …


Engineering Surface Amine Modifiers Of Ultrasmall Gold Nanoparticles Supported On Reduced Graphene Oxide For Improved Electrochemical Co2 Reduction, Yong Zhao, Caiyun Wang, Yuqing Liu, Douglas R. Macfarlane, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2018

Engineering Surface Amine Modifiers Of Ultrasmall Gold Nanoparticles Supported On Reduced Graphene Oxide For Improved Electrochemical Co2 Reduction, Yong Zhao, Caiyun Wang, Yuqing Liu, Douglas R. Macfarlane, Gordon G. Wallace

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

Ultrasmall gold (Au) nanoparticles with high mass activity have great potential for practical applications in CO2electroreduction. However, these nanoparticles often suffer from poor product selectivity since their abundant low-coordinated sites are favorable for H2evolution. In this work, a catalyst, reduced graphene oxide supported ultrasmall Au nanoparticles (≈2.4 nm) is developed which delivers high Au-specific mass activities (>100 A g-1) and good Faradaic efficiencies (32-60%) for the CO2-to-CO conversion at moderate overpotentials (450-600 mV). The efficiencies can be improved to 59-75% while retaining the ultrahigh mass activities via a simple amine-modification strategy. In addition, an amine-structure-dependent effect is revealed: linear …