(Co,Ni,Mn,Cu,Zn)O High-Entropy Oxide Nanotubes as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Hydrazine Oxidation Reactions

Abstract

High-entropy oxides (HEOs) present significant scientific challenges in both design and synthesis due to their multielement and high-entropy nature, which involves complex combinations of multiple metal cations and oxygen anions, typically arranged in equimolar ratios to achieve structural stability. Herein, one-dimensional (Co,Ni,Mn,Cu,Zn)O high-entropy oxide nanotubes (HEO-NTs) are fabricated by means of a gradient electrospinning strategy with a tailored polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) molecular weight distribution and controlled pyrolysis. Benefiting from the HEO features and the synergistic effect of multicomponent sites, the as-synthesized (Co,Ni,Mn,Cu,Zn)O HEO-NTs exhibit exceptional bifunctional electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution and hydrazine oxidation reactions (OER/HzOR). This study offers new insight into the design of HEO-NTs and unveiling the multicomponent synergy on HEOs for enhanced electrocatalytic activities of OER and HzOR.

Keywords

High-entropy oxides / Nanotubes / Electrocatalysts / Oxygen evolution reaction / Hydrazine oxidation reaction

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