title: Phase transformation fabrication of a Cu2S nanoplate as an efficient catalyst for water oxidation with glycine.
abstract: The synthesis of semiconducting nanoplates (NPs) with defined crystal phase is of particular interest, especially their intriguing properties related to the size, shape, and crystal phase. Herein, a liquid-state transformation process from hexagonal-phase CuS NPs is employed to fabricate the cubic-phase Cu2S NPs. The CuS NPs were converted into Cu2S NPs but maintained the morphology. The Cu2S NPs exhibit better oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity than CuS NPs. Furthermore, the OER activity of Cu2S NPs can be improved by the addition of a glycine (Gly) solution. The Cu2S NPs with Gly in a phosphate buffer solution exhibit excellent OER activity and durability, which approaches that of the best known commercial Ir/C (20%) nanocatalyst. In this work, a good strategy for fabricating a noble-metal-free OER catalyst has been proposed, which could provide insight into developing new water oxidation catalysts with high activity.
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: Li
authors: L
authors: An
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: Panpan
authors: P
authors: Zhou
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Yin
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: He
authors: H
authors: Liu
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: Fengjuan
authors: F
authors: Chen
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: Hongyan
authors: H
authors: Liu
authors: ‡Frontier Institute of Chemistry, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology Jointly with College of Science, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R.China.
authors: Yaping
authors: Y
authors: Du
authors: †Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and The Research Center of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
authors: Pinxian
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authors: Xi