纳米棒阵列电极的控制合成及其催化析氢性能分析-controlled synthesis of nanorod array electrodes and analysis of their catalytic hydrogen evolution performance.docxVIP

重庆大学硕士学位论文 重庆大学硕士学位论文 英文摘要 PAGE PAGE VI ABSTRACT Hydrogen seems to be the most likely fuel of the future, concerning about the issues of sustainability, environmental emissions and energy security. A clean and renewable method of hydrogen production is electrolysis of water using renewable energies, in particular solar energy. Fundamentally, the interconversion of water and hydrogen can also be considered as a possible solution to convert electrical energy into a storable, chemical form that in turn can be released upon an electricity shortage. Pt-group metals are the best catalysts for hydrogen production, unfortunately their scarcity and expensive price make them impractical for global-scale application, which creates a strong demand for developing cheap and abundant materials to reduce the cost of hydrogen generating technologies and ultimately enable a hydrogen economy. In addition, the existing methods for the preparation of hydrogen evolusion reaction (HER) electrodes are complicated. And their morphology is hard to control. What’s worse, the conventional electrodes exhibit a characteristic mud-cracked structure. Accordingly, designing nanostructured electrodes with high catalytic activity, high stability and low cost through simple and clean methods has important research significance and use value. ①We report the development of an ethylene glycol (EG)-mediated hydrothermal method combined with a post annealing treatment to construct RuO2-NiO nanorod arrays onto Ni foam as a binder-free integrated electrode for the HER. EG coordinates with RuCl3 or NiCl2 to form metal alkoxide on Ni foam because of its coordination ability with transition metal ions, which serves as the nuclei for the subsequent oligomerization to further self-assembly into ordered nanorods. SEM images show that the interconnected coating of RuO2-NiO on Ni foam is composed of perpendicularly oriented nanorod arrays approximately 1-2 μm in length. The prepared electrode exhibits excellent H