CeOx-Decorated Hierarchical NiCo2S4 Hollow Nanotubes Arrays for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis

Developing hollow self-supported nanotube arrays with hierarchical microporous and abundant multiactive sites shows great promise for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysis. Herein, a facile and low-cost strategy of NiCo2S4 hollow nanotubes arrays decorated with CeOx nanoparticles (NPs) assembled on a flexible support carbon cloth (CC) for enhanced OER performance is reported. The obtained hierarchical nanoarrays CeOx/NiCo2S4/CC exhibited excellent activity toward OER with an overpotential (270 mV) at 10 mA cm-2, relatively weak Tafel slope, and distinguished durability. CeOx/NiCo2S4/CC nanoarrays not only provide fast electronic transmission and well-defined connection to the substrate but also defective sites and electron transfer by the introduction of CeOx NPs. This new strategy was offered to construct low-cost and effectively hierarchical structural electrocatalysts containing rare-earth species.