The electrochemical measurements were completed using a BAS Epsilon Electrochemical Workstation (Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., West Lafayette, IN, USA) and a custom-built Teflon cell [53] with a defined working electrode area of 0.032 cm2, a platinum wire (Alfa Aesar, Ward Hill, Apoptosis inhibitor MA, USA) counter
electrode, and an Ag/AgCl (3 M NaCl) reference electrode (Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., West Lafayette, IN, USA). All potentials are reported with respect to the Ag/AgCl reference electrode. The electrolyte solutions were made using water that had been purified through successive reverse osmosis, deionization, and UV purification stages. All chemicals were PI3K inhibitor purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA) and used as received. All experiments were carried out at room temperature. The films were deposited from 0.5 M H3BO3 and 1 M Na2SO4 solutions with varying NiSO4 and CuSO4 concentrations (the sum of which was held constant at 0.11 M). The potential of the working
electrode was stepped from open circuit to -1,200 mV until a total 50 mC of charge had been deposited. The dealloying step was performed in a 1 M Na2SO4 solution using linear sweep voltammetry (LSV). The potential was swept from 0mV to between 2,100 and 2,400mV at a scan rate of 5mV/s. Characterization Characterization of the composition, structure, check details and reactivity of all the samples was performed before and after the dealloying step. Electrochemical capacitance measurements were carried out in a Tyrosine-protein kinase BLK 1 M Na2SO4 solution using cyclic voltammetry (CV). The potential was cycled from -250 to 0 mV back to -250 mV at scan rates from 25 to 400 mV/s. The average current for the forward and reverse scans was graphed vs. the scan rate to extract the observed capacitance, a measure of the effective area of the sample. Measurement of the HER was performed in 1 M NaOH. The sample was first pretreated by the application of a constant current of 50 μA for 5 min. Then, the HER measurement was completed by sweeping
the potential from -1,400 to -1,200 mV at a scan rate of 5 mV/s. The potential vs. Ag/AgCl was converted to overpotential based on the standard electrode potential of the HER and the pH of the electrolyte [54], and the current density was calculated with respect to the geometric area of the sample [53]. The current vs. overpotential data were fit to the Tafel equation to obtain the Tafel slope and exchange current density for the measured HER [55]. SEM and EDS measurements were carried out using a TM3000 Tabletop SEM (Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) with a Quantax 70 EDS attachment (Bruker, Madison, WI, USA). Images were taken over a variety of field view sizes from ×60 to ×30,000 magnification. Composition measurements were extracted from EDS spectra taken at ×250 magnification, and Quantax 70 software was used to extract Ni and Cu compositions from the spectra.