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    Facile Fabrication of Ni9S8/Ag2S Intertwined Structures for Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-12-21T00:00:00) Biswas, Rathindranath; Ahmed, Imtiaz; Manna, Priyanka; Mahata, Partha; Dhayal, Rajendra S.; Singh, Amol; Lahtinen, Jouko; Haldar, Krishna Kanta
    Here, we report the fabrication of the unique intertwined Ni9S8/Ag2S composite structure with hexagonal shape from their molecular precursors by one-pot thermal decomposition. Various spectroscopic and microscopic techniques were utilized to confirm the Ni9S8/Ag2S intertwined structure. Powder X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis suggest that there is an enrichment of Ni9S8 phase in Ni9S8/Ag2S. The presence of Ag2S in Ni9S8/Ag2S improves the conductivity by reducing the interfacial energy and charge transfer resistance. When Ni9S8/Ag2S is employed as an electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity, it requires a low overpotential of 152 mV for HER and 277 mV for OER to obtain the geometrical current density of 10 mA cm?2, which is definitely superior to that of its components Ni9S8 and Ag2S. This work provides a simple design route to develop an efficient and durable electrocatalyst with outstanding OER and HER performance and the present catalyst (Ni9S8/Ag2S) deserves as a potential candidate in the field of energy conversion systems. � 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
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    Green synthesis of hybrid papain/Ni3(PO4)2 rods electrocatalyst for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction
    (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-10-21T00:00:00) Ahmed, Imtiaz; Biswas, Rathindranath; Singh, Harjinder; Patil, Ranjit A.; Varshney, Rohit; Patra, Debabrata; Ma, Yuan-Ron; Haldar, Krishna Kanta
    Hydrogen production using electrocatalytic water splitting provides encouraging innovations for enduring and clean energy generation as an option in contrast to traditional energy sources. Improvement in exceptionally dynamic electrocatalysts is of tremendous interest for work on the proficiency of gas generation, which has been emphatically blocked because of the sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). We have synthesized a noble rod-shaped papain/Ni3(PO4)2 catalyst, which was further explored for electrocatalytic OER activity. An environmentally benign approach was applied to prepare binary papain/Ni3(PO4)2 in the presence of papain obtained from green papaya fruit. The yield of Ni3(PO4)2 rod structures could be controlled by varying the amount of papain extract during reaction conditions. The morphology and structural properties of the biogenic papain/Ni3(PO4)2 electrocatalyst were investigated with various microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, for example, FE-SEM, XRD, XPS, and FTIR. To show how such a papain/Ni3(PO4)2 hybrid structure could deliver more remarkable electrocatalytic OER activity, we inspected the correlation between catalytic demonstrations of the papain/Ni3(PO4)2 catalyst and its constituents, and the role of papain on its own was studied during the OER process. A biosynthesised papain/Ni3(PO4)2 catalyst exhibits excellent electrochemical OER performance with the smallest overpotentials of 217 mV, 319 mV and 431 mV in alkaline, neutral and acidic conditions, respectively, at 10 mA cm?2 current density. Transport of ions and electrons is also assisted by the long peptide backbone present in papain, which plays an important role in boosting OER activity. Our results reveal that papain/Ni3(PO4)2 shows better electrocatalytic OER execution along with cyclic stability compared to its different counterparts, owing to synergism-assisted enhancement by several amino acids from papain with metal ions in Ni3(PO4)2 � 2022 The Royal Society of Chemistry.