title: Self-supported Cu3P nanowire arrays as an integrated high-performance three-dimensional cathode for generating hydrogen from water.
abstract: Searching for inexpensive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts with high activity has attracted considerable research interest in the past years. Reported herein is the topotactic fabrication of self-supported Cu3 P nanowire arrays on commercial porous copper foam (Cu3 P NW/CF) from its Cu(OH)2 NW/CF precursor by a low-temperature phosphidation reaction. Remarkably, as an integrated three-dimensional hydrogen-evolving cathode operating in acidic electrolytes, Cu3 P NW/CF maintains its activity for at least 25 hours and exhibits an onset overpotential of 62 mV, a Tafel slope of 67 mV dec(-1) , and a Faradaic efficiency close to 100 %. Catalytic current density can approach 10 mA cm(-2) at an overpotential of 143 mV.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun 130022, Jilin (China); Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039 (China).
authors.forename: Jingqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ningyan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Abdullah M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Asiri
authors.forename: Xuping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
keywords: copper; electrochemistry; heterogeneous catalysts; hydrogen; nanostructures