TY - JOUR
T1 - Stainless Steel Scrubber
T2 - A Cost Efficient Catalytic Electrode for Full Water Splitting in Alkaline Medium
AU - Anantharaj, Sengeni
AU - Chatterjee, Shubham
AU - Swaathini, Karukkampalayam C.
AU - Amarnath, Thangavel S.
AU - Subhashini, Elangovan
AU - Pattanayak, Deepak Kumar
AU - Kundu, Subrata
N1 - Funding Information:
All authors wish to acknowledge Dr. V. K. Pillai, Director, CSIR-CECRI. S.A. wishes to thank CSIR, New Delhi, for the award of Senior Research Fellowship (SRF). All-time help and support from the faculties of CIF, CSIR-CECRI, is also kindly acknowledged by all authors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/2/5
Y1 - 2018/2/5
N2 - Sometimes, searching for a cost efficient bifunctional catalytic material for water splitting can be accomplished from a very unlikely place. In this work, we are reporting such a discovery of utilizing the stainless steel (SS) scrubber directly as a catalytic electrode for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of water electrolysis in 1 M KOH. The iR corrected overpotential calculated at an areal current density of 10 mA cm-2 for a SS scrubber in HER is 315 mV which is 273 mV higher than Pt/C. Similarly, the SS scrubber required 418 mV at 10 mA cm-2 which is just 37 and 98 mV higher than Ni(OH)2 and RuO2. Interestingly, the kinetic analysis revealed that the SS scrubber had facile kinetics for both HER and OER in 1 M KOH as reflected by their corresponding Tafel slope values viz., 121 and 63 mV dec-1, respectively. In addition, the two electrode cell fabricated using the same SS scrubber electrode delivered 10 mA cm-2 at 1.98 V. Beyond everything, the SS scrubber had shown ultrahigh stability in both half-cell and full-cell studies for total water splitting. Further, as far as the cost of an electrode material per gram is concerned, the SS scrubber defeats all the best electrocatalysts of water splitting by having a price of just $0.012 USD which is $2.228 USD lower than pure Ni, $59.658 USD lower than RuO2 and $158.028 USD lower than Pt/C 20 wt % catalyst. The overall study specified that the SS scrubber can be adapted for cost-efficient large scale water electrolysis for bulk hydrogen production.
AB - Sometimes, searching for a cost efficient bifunctional catalytic material for water splitting can be accomplished from a very unlikely place. In this work, we are reporting such a discovery of utilizing the stainless steel (SS) scrubber directly as a catalytic electrode for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of water electrolysis in 1 M KOH. The iR corrected overpotential calculated at an areal current density of 10 mA cm-2 for a SS scrubber in HER is 315 mV which is 273 mV higher than Pt/C. Similarly, the SS scrubber required 418 mV at 10 mA cm-2 which is just 37 and 98 mV higher than Ni(OH)2 and RuO2. Interestingly, the kinetic analysis revealed that the SS scrubber had facile kinetics for both HER and OER in 1 M KOH as reflected by their corresponding Tafel slope values viz., 121 and 63 mV dec-1, respectively. In addition, the two electrode cell fabricated using the same SS scrubber electrode delivered 10 mA cm-2 at 1.98 V. Beyond everything, the SS scrubber had shown ultrahigh stability in both half-cell and full-cell studies for total water splitting. Further, as far as the cost of an electrode material per gram is concerned, the SS scrubber defeats all the best electrocatalysts of water splitting by having a price of just $0.012 USD which is $2.228 USD lower than pure Ni, $59.658 USD lower than RuO2 and $158.028 USD lower than Pt/C 20 wt % catalyst. The overall study specified that the SS scrubber can be adapted for cost-efficient large scale water electrolysis for bulk hydrogen production.
KW - Catalytic electrode
KW - Hydrogen evolution
KW - Oxygen evolution
KW - Stainless steel scrubber
KW - Voltammetry
KW - Water splitting
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U2 - 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03964
DO - 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03964
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041491647
SN - 2168-0485
VL - 6
SP - 2498
EP - 2509
JO - ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
JF - ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
IS - 2
ER -
