Synergistic Tuning of Nickel Cobalt Selenide@Nickel Telluride Core-Shell Heteroarchitectures for Boosting Overall Urea Electrooxidation and Electrochemical Supercapattery

Abstract

Herein, we demonstrate the synthesis of bifunctional nickel cobalt selenide@nickel telluride (Ni_xCo_12–xSe@NiTe) core-shell heterostructures via an electrodeposition approach for overall urea electrolysis and supercapacitors. The 3D vertically orientated NiTe dendritic frameworks induce the homogeneous nucleation of 2D Ni_xCo_12–xSe nanosheet arrays along similar crystal directions and bring a strong interfacial binding between the integrated active components. In particular, the optimized Ni₆Co₆Se@NiTe with an interface coupling effect works in concert to tune the intrinsic activity. It only needs a low overpotential of 1.33 V to yield a current density of 10 mA cm^-2 for alkaline urea electrolysis. Meanwhile, the full urea catalysis driven only by Ni₆Co₆Se@NiTe achieves 10 mA cm^–2 at a potential of 1.38 V and can approach a constant level of the current response for 40 h. Besides, the integrated Ni₆Co₆Se@NiTe electrode delivers an enhanced specific capacity (223 mA h g^–1 at 1 A g^–1) with a high cycling stability. Consequently, a hybrid asymmetric supercapacitor (HASC) device based on Ni₆Co₆Se@NiTe exhibits a favorable rate capability and reaches a high energy density of 67.7 Wh kg^–1 and a power density of 724.8 W kg^–1 with an exceptional capacity retention of 92.4% after sequential 12 000 cycles at 5 A g^–1.

Keywords

bifunctional Ni _xCo _12–xSe@NiTe core-shell / electrodeposition / heterointerfaces / supercapacitors / UOR

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