Solid-solution hexagonal Ni0.5Co0.5Se nanoflakes toward boosted oxygen evolution reaction†
Abstract
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with sluggish kinetics is a bottleneck for the large-scale application of water electrolysis. Herein, solid-solution hexagonal Ni0.5Co0.5Se nanoflakes are designed and successfully synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method with a much lower overpotential of 216 mV at 10 mA cm−2 and a Tafel slope of 37.08 mV dec−1.