The reasonable design of material morphology and eco-friendly electrocatalysts are essential to highly efficient water splitting.It is proposed that a promising strategy effectively regulates the electronic structure ...The reasonable design of material morphology and eco-friendly electrocatalysts are essential to highly efficient water splitting.It is proposed that a promising strategy effectively regulates the electronic structure of the d-orbitals of CoP using cerium doping in this paper,thus significantly improving the intrinsic property and conductivity of CoP for water splitting.As a result,the as-synthesize porous Ce-doped CoP micro-polyhedron composite derived from Ce-ZIF-67 as bifunctional electrocatalytic materials exhibits excellent electrocatalytic performance in both the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)and the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER),overpotentials of about 152 mV for HER at 10 mA cm^(-2)and about 352 mV for OER at 50 mA cm^(-2),and especially it shows outstanding long-term stability.Besides,an alkaline electrolyzer,using Ce0.04Co0.96P electrocatalyst as both the anode and cathode,delivers a cell voltage value of1.55 V at the current density of 10 mA cm^(-2).The calculation results of the density functional theory(DFT)demonstrate that the introduction of an appropriate amount of Ce into CoP can enhance the conductivity,and can induce the electronic modulation to regulate the selective adsorption of reaction intermediates on catalytic surface and the formation of O*intermediates(CoOOH),which exhibits an excellent electrocatalytic performance.This study provides novel insights into the design of an extraordinary performance water-splitting of the multicomponent electrocatalysts.展开更多
Dear Editor,Learning-induced expression of activity-dependent genes,especially immediate-early genes(IEGs),is required for the conversion of experience-induced neuronal activity into long-term memory[1].Neuronal Per-A...Dear Editor,Learning-induced expression of activity-dependent genes,especially immediate-early genes(IEGs),is required for the conversion of experience-induced neuronal activity into long-term memory[1].Neuronal Per-Arnt-Sim domain protein 4(Npas4)is one of the most rapidly induced IEGs,functioning as a transcription factor to regulate the activity-dependent expression of other IEGs,such as activityregulated cytoskeleton associated protein(Arc),Fos protooncogene,and early growth response 1(Egrl)[1].展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12162023&52268042)Key R&D Program of Gansu Province-International Cooperation Project(No.20YF8WA064)Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province(No.22JR5RA253).
文摘The reasonable design of material morphology and eco-friendly electrocatalysts are essential to highly efficient water splitting.It is proposed that a promising strategy effectively regulates the electronic structure of the d-orbitals of CoP using cerium doping in this paper,thus significantly improving the intrinsic property and conductivity of CoP for water splitting.As a result,the as-synthesize porous Ce-doped CoP micro-polyhedron composite derived from Ce-ZIF-67 as bifunctional electrocatalytic materials exhibits excellent electrocatalytic performance in both the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)and the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER),overpotentials of about 152 mV for HER at 10 mA cm^(-2)and about 352 mV for OER at 50 mA cm^(-2),and especially it shows outstanding long-term stability.Besides,an alkaline electrolyzer,using Ce0.04Co0.96P electrocatalyst as both the anode and cathode,delivers a cell voltage value of1.55 V at the current density of 10 mA cm^(-2).The calculation results of the density functional theory(DFT)demonstrate that the introduction of an appropriate amount of Ce into CoP can enhance the conductivity,and can induce the electronic modulation to regulate the selective adsorption of reaction intermediates on catalytic surface and the formation of O*intermediates(CoOOH),which exhibits an excellent electrocatalytic performance.This study provides novel insights into the design of an extraordinary performance water-splitting of the multicomponent electrocatalysts.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFA0804900 and 2020YFA0509300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82125009,82330045,82071185,32100794,92149303,and 32121002)+5 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB39000000)a CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-013)Plans for Major Provincial Science&Technology Projects(202303a07020004)the Collaborative Innovation Program of Hefei Science Center,CAS(2022HSC-CIP003)Research Funds of Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM(QYZD20220003)USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative.
文摘Dear Editor,Learning-induced expression of activity-dependent genes,especially immediate-early genes(IEGs),is required for the conversion of experience-induced neuronal activity into long-term memory[1].Neuronal Per-Arnt-Sim domain protein 4(Npas4)is one of the most rapidly induced IEGs,functioning as a transcription factor to regulate the activity-dependent expression of other IEGs,such as activityregulated cytoskeleton associated protein(Arc),Fos protooncogene,and early growth response 1(Egrl)[1].
