Silver-doped cadmium sulfide for electrochemical water oxidation

Applied Nanoscience - Tập 10 - Trang 4351-4358 - 2020
Srinivasan Swathi1, Rathinam Yuvakkumar1, Ganesan Ravi1, Eadi Sunil Babu2, Dhayalan Velauthapillai3, Asad Syed4, Turki M S Dawoud4
1Nanomaterials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu, Karaikudi, India
2Department of Electronics and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
3Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
4Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tóm tắt

Currently, sustainable energy production is the most needful and challenging factor due to the increase of major energy consumption such as fossil fuels, gas fuels, coal, and petroleum. Hydrolysis technology is one of the promising factors to generate clean energy production. Especially, electrochemical water splitting involves two half reactions, i.e., hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). OER is a four electron process and it possessed a slow kinetics and high overpotential. The aim of this study is to overcome the difficulties of energy consumption, and enhances its kinetic activity and also reduces its overpotential by doping agent. In this study, pristine and 5, 10% Ag-doped CdS nanostructures were synthesized via co-precipitation method. Interestingly, 10% Ag-doped CdS nanostructure exhibits 868.7 F/g specific capacitance at 10 mV/s scan rate. Its OER activity, ion diffusion process, and stability were investigated under the linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and chronoamperometry (CA) studies. Ag plays a vital role to overcome the difficulties and it is noteworthy for water splitting applications.

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