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Hierarchically nanostructured NiO-Co3O4 with rich interface defects for the electro-oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

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Ni-based electrocatalysts with strong redox abilities are active for the electrochemical oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Interface engineering is an efficient way to modulate the electronic structure, tune the intermediate adsorption, and expose more active sites. Herein, we increased the concentration of interfacial sites with rich defects in a 3D hierarchical nanostructured NiO-Co3O4 electrocatalyst and investigated its catalytic performance for HMF electro-oxidation. The interface effect created abundant cation vacancies, modulated the electronic properties of Co and Ni atoms, and raised the oxidation state of Ni species. The NiO-Co3O4 catalysts show superb HMF oxidation activities with a low onset potential of 1.28 VRHE. Meanwhile, in-situ surface-selective vibrational spectroscopy of sum-frequency generation was performed to study the reaction pathway during the oxidation process on the electrocatalysts. The current study offers an efficient way to create cation vacancies and proves the decisive role of cation vacancies in catalyzing the HMF electro-oxidation.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (531118010127), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21902047, 51402100, 21825201, 21573066, 21805080, 21972164, U19A2017), and the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan (2016TP1009).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the National Supercomputer Centers in Changsha, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Yuxuan Lu, Yuqin Zou, Yanbo Liu, Yingying Li, Nana Zhang, Wei Chen, Ling Zhou & Shuangyin Wang

  2. Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Taipei, 25137, Taiwan

    Chung-Li Dong & Yu-Cheng Huang

  3. i-LAB, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Hongzhen Lin

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Lu, Y., Dong, CL., Huang, YC. et al. Hierarchically nanostructured NiO-Co3O4 with rich interface defects for the electro-oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. Sci. China Chem. 63, 980–986 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-020-9749-8

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