Highly efficient hydrogen production from hydrolysis of ammonia borane over nanostructured Cu@CuCoO supported on graphene oxide.

Highly efficient hydrogen production from hydrolysis of ammonia borane over nanostructured Cu@CuCoO supported on graphene oxide.

Li, Jinlong;Ren, Xueying;Lv, Hao;Wang, Yingying;Li, Yafei;Liu, Ben;
Journal of hazardous materials 2020 Vol. 391 pp. 122199
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Abstract

Designing highly efficient and cheap nanocatalysts for room-temperature hydrolysis of ammonia borane (AB) is of great significance for their real application in hydrogen (H)-based fuel cells. Here, we report a kind of noble metal (NM)-free hybrid nanocatalysts composed of heterostructured Cu@CuCoO nanoparticles and a graphene oxide support (denoted as Cu@CuCoO@GO) and demonstrate their high catalytic performance toward the hydrolysis of AB. By rationally controlling synthetic parameters, we find that optimum Cu@CuCoO@GO achieves a superior catalytic activity with a turnover frequency of 44.6 mol mol min in HO and 98.2 mol mol min in 0.2 M NaOH, better than most of previously reported NM-free nanocatalysts. This catalyst also discloses a very low activation energy (E) of 35.4 kJ mol. The studies on catalytic kinetics and isotopic experiments attribute the high activity to synergistically structural and compositional advantages of Cu@CuCoO@GO, which kinetically accelerates the oxidative cleavage of OH bond in attacked HO (the rate-determining step of the hydrolysis of AB). This study thus provides an opportunity for rational design of cheap NM-free nanocatalysts for H production from chemical H-storage materials.

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