Single-crystalline CoFe alloy nanoparticles encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (CoFe@N-C) were synthesized through a simple heat-treatment in an N2 environment. CoFe@N-C effectively catalyzed the overall water splitting in alkaline media. Specifically, the as-synthesized CoFe@N-C exhibited excellent activity towards the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with a low overpotential of 292 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with a low overpotential of 110 mV at 10 mA cm-2. The good electrocatalytic properties may be attributed to the synergistic electronic coupling between single-crystalline CoFe and highly conductive N-doped CNTs and the enrichment of active sites. Additionally, CoFe@N-C showed excellent stability and durability with no observable deviation in the overpotential for the OER and HER after 1000 cycles of cyclic voltammetry (CV). This journal is
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Zeng, X., Jang, M. J., Choi, S. M., Cho, H. S., Kim, C. H., Myung, N. V., & Yin, Y. (2020). Single-crystalline CoFe nanoparticles encapsulated in N-doped carbon nanotubes as a bifunctional catalyst for water splitting. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 4(8), 2307–2313. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0qm00126k
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