The design and construction of effective and stable hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)catalysts represent the key to obtaining hydrogen energy economically.Transition metal phosphides(TMPs)have attracted considerable attention due to their unique catalytic mechanism,which is similar to hydrogenase.However,single-phase TMPs remain limited by their low activity and weak stability in alkaline solutions.In this work,CoP@CoMoO4 nanosheets with phosphide and oxide heterostructure were synthesized on carbon cloth(CC)through hydrothermal method and subsequently reacted with red phosphorus in a tube furnace.The outstanding synergy between CoP and CoMoO4 enhanced the HER activity and stability in alkaline solution.The CoP@CoMoO4/CC heterostructure exhibited excellent HER activity with a low overpotential of 89 mV at 10 mA cm^-2 with Tafel slope of 69 mV dec^-1,and outstanding stability when compared with single-phase phosphides.Our present research provides a new approach for the preparation of inexpensive,highly active,and highly durable phosphorus-based catalyst for HER.
Zheng LiuJieqiong WangChanghong ZhanJing YuYang CaoJinchun TuChangsheng Shi
Determined to become a new member of the well-established GNSS family,COMPASS(or BeiDou-2) is developing its capabilities to provide high accuracy positioning services.Two positioning modes are investigated in this study to assess the positioning accuracy of COMPASS' 4GEO/5IGSO/2MEO constellation.Precise Point Positioning(PPP) for geodetic users and real-time positioning for common navigation users are utilized.To evaluate PPP accuracy,coordinate time series repeatability and discrepancies with GPS' precise positioning are computed.Experiments show that COMPASS PPP repeatability for the east,north and up components of a receiver within China's Mainland is better than 2 cm,2 cm and 5 cm,respectively.Apparent systematic offsets of several centimeters exist between COMPASS precise positioning and GPS precise positioning,indicating errors remaining in the treatments of COMPASS measurement and dynamic models and reference frame differences existing between two systems.For common positioning users,COMPASS provides both open and authorized services with rapid differential corrections and integrity information available to authorized users.Our assessment shows that in open service positioning accuracy of dual-frequency and single-frequency users is about 5 m and 6 m(RMS),respectively,which may be improved to about 3 m and 4 m(RMS) with the addition of differential corrections.Less accurate Signal In Space User Ranging Error(SIS URE) and Geometric Dilution of Precision(GDOP) contribute to the relatively inferior accuracy of COMPASS as compared to GPS.Since the deployment of the remaining 1 GEO and 2 MEO is not able to significantly improve GDOP,the performance gap could only be overcome either by the use of differential corrections or improvement of the SIS URE,or both.
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System(BDS) provides Radio Navigation Service System(RNSS) as well as Radio Determination Service System(RDSS).RDSS users can obtain positioning by responding the Master Control Center(MCC) inquiries to signal transmitted via GEO satellite transponder.The positioning result can be calculated with elevation constraint by MCC.The primary error sources affecting the RDSS positioning accuracy are the RDSS signal transceiver delay,atmospheric trans-mission delay and GEO satellite position error.During GEO orbit maneuver,poor orbit forecast accuracy significantly impacts RDSS services.A real-time 3-D orbital correction method based on wide-area differential technique is raised to correct the orbital error.Results from the observation shows that the method can successfully improve positioning precision during orbital maneuver,independent from the RDSS reference station.This improvement can reach 50% in maximum.Accurate calibration of the RDSS signal transceiver delay precision and digital elevation map may have a critical role in high precise RDSS positioning services.
Producing highly efficient bifunctional catalyst for the generation of hydrogen and oxygen through overall water splitting is an emerging direction in electrocatalysis.Herein,a dandelion-like hierarchical NiMoP_(2)-Ni_(2)P(nanowire/nanoparticle)heterostructure was synthesized for efficient electrochemical water splitting.The NiMoP_(2)-Ni_(2)P heterostructures grown on carbon cloth as a freestanding integrated electrode exhibited excellent oxygen evolution reaction(OER)activity and hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)activities with low overpotentials(258 mV and 53 mV to reach 10 mA cm~(-2)for the OER and HER,respectively),and small Tafel slope(45 mV dec^(-1)and 58 mV dec^(-1)for the OER and HER,respectively).Moreover,the NiMoP_(2)-Ni_(2)P heterostructure can act as both anode and cathode catalysts for overall water splitting with low overall potential of 1.48 V at 10 mA cm~(-2).Density functional theory(DFT)combined with structural probes suggests that the amorphous heterogeneous interfaces play an essential role in enhanced catalytic performance.
