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Construction of RuO2-Ru/MoO2@carbon cloth bifunctional electrocatalyst for efficient overall water splitting

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Efficient bifunction electrocatalyst is extremely interesting for electrochemical overall water splitting (OWS). Herein, a new RuO2-Ru/MoO2@CC (RRM/CC) bifunctional electrocatalyst was prepared via a solid phase reaction strategy. To obtain a suitable precursor for SPR, MoS2 nanosheets and RuO2 nanoparticles (NPs) were sequentially loaded onto carbon cloth conductive substrate. Subsequently, the prepared RuO2/MoS2/CC precursor was sealed in a furnace and annealed in Ar to trigger the redox SPR. After SPR, active RuO2-Ru/MoO2 units containing metal–metal oxide interfaces were formed on CC substrate uniformly. The optimized RRM/CC sample annealed at 400 °C exhibited a overpotential of 13 mV for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and 231 mV for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at 10 mA·cm−2 under alkaline condition, respectively, which can be deduced to the modulated electronic structure and unique hierarchical structure. In addition, a low cell voltage of 1.48 V for OWS was required at 10 mA·cm−2 under alkaline condition. Meanwhile, RRM/CC exhibited excellent pH-independent durability.

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高效双功能电催化剂对于电化学全水分解（OWS）非常有趣。在此，通过固相反应（SPR）策略制备了一种新型RuO2-Ru/MoO2@CC（RRM/CC）双功能电催化剂。将MoS2纳米片和RuO2纳米粒子依次负载到碳布(CC)导电基底上得到SPR的前驱体。随后，将制备的RuO2/MoS2/CC前驱体Ar中退火以触发两者间固相反应。得到在CC基底上均匀形成含有金属-金属氧化物界面的活性RuO2-Ru/MoO2单元。在400 oC退火的优化RRM/CC电催化剂在碱性条件下在10 mA cm−2下的析氢反应（HER）和析氧反应（OER）的过电势分别为13 mV和231 mV，这归因于优异的电子传达和独特的异质结构。此外，在碱性条件下，10 mA cm−2 下的OWS电压仅为1.48 V。与此同时，RRM/CC在全pH条件下均表现出优异的稳定性。

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This work was financially supported by Henan Provincial University Science and Technology Innovation Team (No. 24IRTSTHN008). The authors thank the Center for Modern Analysis and Gene Sequencing of Zhengzhou University in support of the characterization.

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Cai, JL., Fan, JY., Zhang, XD. et al. Construction of RuO2-Ru/MoO2@carbon cloth bifunctional electrocatalyst for efficient overall water splitting. Rare Met. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-024-02772-z

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