- Fu, Xiaoyang;
- Cheng, Dongfang;
- Wan, Chengzhang;
- Kumari, Simran;
- Zhang, Hongtu;
- Zhang, Ao;
- Huyan, Huaixun;
- Zhou, Jingxuan;
- Ren, Huaying;
- Wang, Sibo;
- Zhao, Zipeng;
- Zhao, Xun;
- Chen, Jun;
- Pan, Xiaoqing;
- Sautet, Philippe;
- Huang, Yu;
- Duan, Xiangfeng
Hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis offers a feasible path for low-voltage green hydrogen production. Herein, the design and synthesis of ultrathin RhRu0.5 -alloy wavy nanowires as bifunctional electrocatalysts for both the anodic hydrazine oxidation reaction (HzOR) and the cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is reported. It is shown that the RhRu0.5 -alloy wavy nanowires can achieve complete electrooxidation of hydrazine with a low overpotential and high mass activity, as well as improved performance for the HER. The resulting RhRu0.5 bifunctional electrocatalysts enable, high performance hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis delivering a current density of 100 mA cm-2 at an ultralow cell voltage of 54 mV and a high current density of 853 mA cm-2 at a cell voltage of 0.6 V. The RhRu0.5 electrocatalysts further demonstrate a stable operation at a high current density of 100 mA cm-2 for 80 hours of testing period with little irreversible degradation. The overall performance greatly exceeds that of the previously reported hydrazine-assisted water electrolyzers, offering a pathway for efficiently converting hazardous hydrazine into molecular hydrogen.