Reduced Graphene Oxide-Supported Cobalt Phosphide Nanoflowers via in situ Hydrothermal Synthesis as Pt-Free Effective Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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Cobalt phosphide (CoP) has aroused extensive research interest in a field of electrochemical application due to its excellent catalytic activities. CoP and its compounds have been widely reported using in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, few reports about CoP as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) were presented. In this work, we prepare reduced graphene-oxide(rGO)-loaded CoP (rGO@CoP) as an electrocatalyst for ORR through in situ hydrothermal treatment. The rGO@CoP as ORR catalyst exhibits excellent activities where its onset potential has a positive increase of 129 mV, and the ORR potential achieves an increase of 330mV at a current density of 1.0mA cm -2 compared with that of pure CoP. The current density is also significantly improved with an increase of 0.51mA cm -2 at -350 mV, and the Tafel slope has a decrease of 19mV dec -1. Further tests show that the electron transfer number of rGO@CoP is 3.66, which is larger than 2.19 of pure CoP, indicating that it is dominated by a four-electron transfer pathway. Moreover, its stability (remained 98.6% current after working 6000 s) and methanol tolerance are outstanding. These results show that rGO@CoP may be considered to replace traditional Pt-based ORR catalysts for fuel cells, and rGO loading has been proven to be an effective strategy to enhance the ORR performance of CoP, which may provide a new idea to synthesize transition metal phosphides as ORR catalysts.

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