The invention belongs to the field of preparation of nano materials, and discloses a CoP / Co (OH) 2
sea urchin-shaped
heterojunction catalyst growing on foamed
nickel and a preparation method and application of the CoP / Co (OH) 2
sea urchin-shaped
heterojunction catalyst. Alkali
cobalt carbonate (CoCH) is used as a precursor, a crystalline phase CoP substrate is generated through a low-temperature phosphating method, then the surface of the crystalline phase CoP substrate is uniformly coated with an amorphous Co (OH) 2 layer through an electro-
deposition process, and the self-supporting phosphating / hydroxyl heterogeneous structure catalyst (CoP / Co (OH) 2) is successfully constructed. The obtained CoP / Co (OH) 2 shows excellent complete
water splitting performance, and is benefited from the high-activity specific surface area (Cdl = 44.66 mF cm <-2 >) and the interface rapid
electron conduction characteristic (Rct = 0.43
omega) of a heterogeneous structure; when two electrodes are assembled to fully decompose water, the
cell voltage is only 1.780 V when the
current density is 250 mA cm <-2 >, and after
continuous operation is carried out for 24 hours, the performance is basically kept unchanged, and the
voltage fluctuation ratio is lower than 0.5%. CoP / Co (OH) 2 is prepared into a 2 * 2cm < 2 > self-supporting
electrode to construct AEMWE, only 2.08 V
cell voltage is needed under the ultrahigh
current density of 1A cm <-2 >, the AEMWE can stably run for 250 hours, the attenuation rate is 80 mu V h <-1 >, meanwhile, the
hydrogen production efficiency is calculated to reach 96.2% through gas metering and Faraday law, and the
engineering potential of the AEMWE in large-scale
hydrogen production application is verified.