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Li Y, Yu G, Li J, Bian Z, Han X, Wu B, Wu G, Yang Q, Hong X. Universal Synthesis of Amorphous Metal Oxide Nanomeshes. Small 2024:e2401162. [PMID: 38511537 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202401162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
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Constructing the pore structures in amorphous metal oxide nanosheets can enhance their electrocatalytic performance by efficiently increasing specific surface areas and facilitating mass transport in electrocatalysis. However, the accurate synthesis for porous amorphous metal oxide nanosheets remains a challenge. Herein, a facile nitrate-assisted oxidation strategy is reported for synthesizing amorphous mesoporous iridium oxide nanomeshes (a-m IrOx NMs) with a pore size of ∼4 nm. X-ray absorption characterizations indicate that a-m IrOx NMs possess stretched Ir─O bonds and weaker Ir-O interaction compared with commercial IrO2. Combining thermogravimetric-fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with differential scanning calorimetry measurements, it is demonstrated that sodium nitrate, acting as an oxidizing agent, is conducive to the formation of amorphous nanosheets, while the NO2 produced by the in situ decomposition of nitrates facilitates the generation of pores within the nanomeshes. As an anode electrocatalyst in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer, a-m IrOx NMs exhibit superior performance, maintaining a cell voltage of 1.67 V at 1 A cm-2 for 120 h without obvious decay with a low loading (0.4 mgcatalyst cm-2). Furthermore, the nitrate-assisted method is demonstrated to be a general approach to prepare various amorphous metal oxide nanomeshes, including amorphous RhOx, TiOx, ZrOx, AlOx, and HfOx nanomeshes.
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- Youle Li
- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion (LNEC), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion (LNEC), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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Zhang Y, Dong J, Sun T, Zhang X, Chen J, Xu L. Mo-Doped Mesoporous RuO 2 Spheres as High-Performance Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst. Small 2024; 20:e2305889. [PMID: 37939307 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202305889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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The development of highly active and acid-stable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great significance for water electrolysis technology. Herein, a highly efficient molybdenum-doped mesoporous ruthenium dioxide sphere (Mo-RuO2 ) catalyst is fabricated by a facile impregnation and post-calcination method using mesoporous carbon spheres to template the mesostructure. The optimal Mo0.15 -RuO2 catalyst with Mo doping amount of 15 mol.% exhibits a significantly low overpotential of 147 mV at 10 mA cm-2 , a small Tafel slope of 38 mV decade-1 , and enhanced electrochemical stability in acidic electrolyte, far superior to the commercial RuO2 catalyst. The experimental results and theoretical analysis reveal that the remarkable electrocatalytic performance can be attributed to the large surface area of the mesoporous spherical structure, the structural robustness of the interconnected mesoporous framework, and the change in the electronic structure of Ru active sites induced by Mo doping. These excellent advantages make Mo-doped mesoporous RuO2 spheres a promising catalyst for highly efficient electrocatalytic OER in acidic media.
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- Yixin Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Science and Application of Functional Molecular and Crystalline Materials, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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Niu Z, Lu Z, Qiao Z, Wang S, Cao X, Chen X, Yun J, Zheng L, Cao D. Robust Ru-VO 2 Bifunctional Catalysts for All-pH Overall Water Splitting. Adv Mater 2024; 36:e2310690. [PMID: 38048484 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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Designing robust bifunctional catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction in all-pH conditions for overall water splitting (OWS) is an effective way to achieve sustainable development. Herein, a composite Ru-VO2 containing Ru-doped VO2 and Ru nanoparticles (NPs) is synthesized, and it shows a high OWS performance in full-pH range due to their synergist effect. In particular, the OER mass activities of Ru-VO2 at 1.53 V (vs RHE) in acidic, alkaline, and PBS solutions are ≈65, 36, and 235 times of commercial RuO2 in the same conditions. The "Ru-VO2 || Ru-VO2 " two-electrode electrolyzer only needs a voltage of 1.515 V (at 10 mA cm-2 ) in acidic water splitting, which can operate stably for 125 h at 10 mA cm-2 without significant voltage decay. In situ Raman spectra and in situ differential electrochemical mass spectrometry prove that the OER of Ru-VO2 in acid follows the adsorption evolution mechanism. Density functional theory calculations further reveal the synergistic effect between Ru NP and Ru-doped VO2 , which breaks the hydrogen bond network formed by *OH adsorbed on the Ru single-atom site, and thereby significantly enhances the OER activity. This work provides new insights into the design of novel bifunctional pH-universal catalysts for OWS.
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- Ziqiang Niu
- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, 332005, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, 332005, China
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- Qingdao International Academician Park Research Institute, Qingdao, 266000, China
- School of Chemical Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia
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- Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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Wu J, Qiu Z, Zhang J, Song H, Cui Z, Du L. Stabilizing Highly Active Ru Sites by Electron Reservoir in Acidic Oxygen Evolution. Molecules 2024; 29:785. [PMID: 38398537 PMCID: PMC10892467 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29040785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Revised: 02/03/2024] [Accepted: 02/04/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis is hindered by the sluggish kinetics of the anodic oxygen evolution reaction. RuO2 is regarded as a promising alternative to IrO2 for the anode catalyst of proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers due to its superior activity and relatively lower cost compared to IrO2. However, the dissolution of Ru induced by its overoxidation under acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) conditions greatly hinders its durability. Herein, we developed a strategy for stabilizing RuO2 in acidic OER by the incorporation of high-valence metals with suitable ionic electronegativity. A molten salt method was employed to synthesize a series of high-valence metal-substituted RuO2 with large specific surface areas. The experimental results revealed that a high content of surface Ru4+ species promoted the OER intrinsic activity of high-valence doped RuO2. It was found that there was a linear relationship between the ratio of surface Ru4+/Ru3+ species and the ionic electronegativity of the dopant metals. By regulating the ratio of surface Ru4+/Ru3+ species, incorporating Re, with the highest ionic electronegativity, endowed Re0.1Ru0.9O2 with exceptional OER activity, exhibiting a low overpotential of 199 mV to reach 10 mA cm-2. More importantly, Re0.1Ru0.9O2 demonstrated outstanding stability at both 10 mA cm-2 (over 300 h) and 100 mA cm-2 (over 25 h). The characterization of post-stability Re0.1Ru0.9O2 revealed that Re promoted electron transfer to Ru, serving as an electron reservoir to mitigate excessive oxidation of Ru sites during the OER process and thus enhancing OER stability. We conclude that Re, with the highest ionic electronegativity, attracted a mass of electrons from Ru in the pre-catalyst and replenished electrons to Ru under the operating potential. This work spotlights an effective strategy for stabilizing cost-effective Ru-based catalysts for acidic OER.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China; (J.W.); (Z.Q.); (H.S.); (Z.C.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China; (J.W.); (Z.Q.); (H.S.); (Z.C.)
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Kuang J, Deng B, Jiang Z, Wang Y, Jiang ZJ. Sr-Stabilized IrMnO 2 Solid Solution Nano-Electrocatalysts with Superior Activity and Excellent Durability for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid Media. Adv Mater 2023:e2306934. [PMID: 38135663 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202306934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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The development of cost-effective catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acidic media is of paramount importance. This work reports that Sr-doped solid solution structural ultrafine IrMnO2 nanoparticles (NPs) (≈1.56 nm) on the carbon nanotubes (Sr-IrMnO2 /CNTs) are efficient catalysts for the acidic OER. Even with the Ir use dosage 3.5 times lower than that of the commercial IrO2 , the Sr-IrMnO2 /CNTs only need an overpotential of 236.0 mV to drive 10.0 mA cm-2 and show outstanding stability for >400.0 h. Its Ir mass activity is 39.6 times higher than that of the IrO2 at 1.53 V. The solid solution and Sr-doping structure of Sr-IrMnO2 are the main origin of the high catalytic activity and excellent stability of the Sr-IrMnO2 /CNTs. The density function theory calculations indicate that the solid solution structure can promote strong electronic coupling between Ir and Mn, lowering the energy barrier of the OER rate-determining step. The Sr-doping can enhance the stability of Ir against the chemical corrosion and demetallation. Water electrolyzers and proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers assembled with the Sr-IrMnO2 /CNTs show superb performance and excellent durability in the acid media.
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- Jianren Kuang
- Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, Guangdong Engineering and Technology Research Center for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Hydrogen Energy, Foshan University, Foshan, 528000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation of Zhejiang Province, Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, P. R. China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Materials and Intelligent Photonic Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, Guangdong Engineering and Technology Research Center for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, P. R. China
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Wu J, Zou W, Zhang J, Zhang L, Song H, Cui Z, Du L. Regulating Ir-O Covalency to Boost Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Small 2023:e2308419. [PMID: 38102103 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202308419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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The unsatisfactory oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity of IrO2 has intensively raised the cost and energy consumption of hydrogen generation from proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers. Here, the acidic OER activity of the rutile IrO2 is significantly enhanced by the incorporation of trivalent metals (e.g., Gd, Nd, and Pr) to increase the Ir-O covalency, while the high-valence (pentavalent or higher) metal incorporation decreases the Ir-O covalency resulting in worse OER activity. Experimental and theoretical analyses indicate that enhanced Ir-O covalency activates lattice oxygen and triggers lattice oxygen-mediated mechanism to enhance OER kinetics, which is verified by the finding of a linear relationship between the natural logarithm of intrinsic activity and Ir-O covalency described by charge transfer energy. By regulating the Ir-O covalency, the obtained Gd-IrO2-δ merely needs 260 mV of overpotential to reach 10 mA cm-2 and shows impressive stability during a 200-h test in 0.5 м H2 SO4 . This work provides an effective strategy for significantly enhancing the OER activity of the widely used IrO2 electrocatalysts through the rational regulation of Ir-O covalency.
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- Jiayan Wu
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
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Liang J, Gao X, Xu K, Lu J, Liu D, Zhao Z, Tse ECM, Peng Z, Zhang W, Liu J. Unraveling the Asymmetric O─O Radical Coupling Mechanism on Ru─O─Co for Enhanced Acidic Water Oxidation. Small 2023; 19:e2304889. [PMID: 37438574 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202304889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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Heterogeneous oxides with multiple interfaces provide significant advantages in electrocatalytic activity and stability. However, controlling the local structure of these oxides is challenging. In this work, unique heterojunctions are demonstrated based on two oxide types, which are formed via pyrolysis of a ruthenocene metal-organic framework (Ru-MOF) at specific temperatures. The resulted Ru-MOF-400 exhibits excellent electrocatalytic activity, with an overpotential of 190 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 in 0.1 m HClO4 , and a mass activity of 2557 A gRu -1 , three orders of magnitude higher than commercial RuO2 . The Ru─O─Co bond formed by the incorporation of Co into the rutile lattice of RuO2 inhibits the disolution of Ru. Operando electrochemical investigations and density functional theory results reveal that the Ru-MOF-400 undergo asymmetric dual-active site oxide path mechanism during the acidic oxygen evolution reaction process, which is predominantly mediated by the asymmetric Ru─Co dual active site present at the interfaces between Co3 O4 and CoRuOx .
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- Jing Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, CAS-HKU Joint Laboratory on New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, HKG, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Spectro-Electrochemistry and Lithium-Ion Batteries, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, CAS-HKU Joint Laboratory on New Materials, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, HKG, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Spectro-Electrochemistry and Lithium-Ion Batteries, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China
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Kuang J, Li Z, Li W, Chen C, La M, Hao Y. Achieving High Activity and Long-Term Stability towards Oxygen Evolution in Acid by Phase Coupling between CeO 2-Ir. Materials (Basel) 2023; 16:7000. [PMID: 37959597 PMCID: PMC10650327 DOI: 10.3390/ma16217000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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The development of efficient and stable catalysts with high mass activity is crucial for acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this study, CeO2-Ir heterojunctions supported on carbon nanotubes (CeO2-Ir/CNTs) are synthesized using a solvothermal method based on the heterostructure strategy. CeO2-Ir/CNTs demonstrate remarkable effectiveness as catalysts for acidic OER, achieving 10.0 mA cm-2 at a low overpotential of only 262.9 mV and maintaining stability over 60.0 h. Notably, despite using an Ir dosage 15.3 times lower than that of c-IrO2, CeO2-Ir/CNTs exhibit a very high mass activity (2542.3 A gIr-1@1.53 V), which is 58.8 times higher than that of c-IrO2. When applied to acidic water electrolyzes, CeO2-Ir/CNTs display a prosperous potential for application as anodic catalysts. X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) analysis reveals that the chemical environment of Ir nanoparticles (NP) can be effectively modulated through coupling with CeO2. This modulation is believed to be the key factor contributing to the excellent OER catalytic activity and stability observed in CeO2-Ir/CNTs.
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- Jianren Kuang
- College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; (J.K.); (Z.L.)
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- College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; (J.K.); (Z.L.)
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- College of Electric and Information Engineering, Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 467000, China;
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 467000, China;
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 467000, China;
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- College of Electric and Information Engineering, Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 467000, China;
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Zeng Y, Yan L, Tian S, Sun X. Loading IrO x Clusters on MnO 2 Boosts Acidic Water Oxidation via Metal-Support Interaction. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:47103-47110. [PMID: 37774151 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c11038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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Noble metal-based electrocatalysts are crucial for efficient acidic water oxidation to develop green hydrogen energy. However, traditional noble metal catalysts loaded on inactive substrates show limited intrinsic catalytic activity, and their large sizes have compromised the atom efficiency of these noble metals. Herein, IrOx nanoclusters with sizes below 2 nm, displaying high atom-utilization efficiency of Ir species, were supported on a redox-active MnO2 nanosubstrate (IrOx/MnO2) with different phases (α-MnO2, δ-MnO2, and ε-MnO2) to explore the optimal combination. Electrochemical measurements showed that IrOx/ε-MnO2 had excellent OER performance with a low overpotential of 225 mV at 10 mA cm-2 in 0.5 M H2SO4, superior to its counterpart, IrOx/α-MnO2 (242 mV) and IrOx/δ-MnO2 (286 mV). Moreover, it also delivered robust stability with no obvious change in operating potential at 10 mA cm-2 during 50 h of continuous operation. Combining the XPS results and Bader charge analysis, we demonstrated that the strong metal-support interactions of IrOx/ε-MnO2 could effectively regulate the electronic structures of the active Ir atoms and stabilize IrOx nanoclusters on supports to suppress their detachment, resulting in significantly enhanced catalytic activity and stability for acidic OER. DFT calculations further supported that the enhanced catalytic OER performance of IrOx/ε-MnO2 could be ascribed to the appropriate strength of interactions between the active Ir sites and the reaction intermediates of the potential-determining step (*O and *OOH) regulated by the redox-active substrates.
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- Yunchu Zeng
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Weng Y, Wang K, Li S, Wang Y, Lei L, Zhuang L, Xu Z. High-Valence-Manganese Driven Strong Anchoring of Iridium Species for Robust Acidic Water Oxidation. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2023; 10:e2205920. [PMID: 36683162 PMCID: PMC10015899 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202205920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 12/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Designing an efficient and durable electrocatalyst for the sluggish anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has been the primary goal of using proton exchange membrane electrolyzer owing to the highly acidic and oxidative environment at the anode. In this work, it is reported that high-valence manganese drives the strong anchoring of the Ir species on the manganese dioxide (MnO2 ) matrix via the formation of an Mn-O-Ir coordination structure through a hydrothermal-redox reaction. The iridium (Ir)-atom-array array is firmly anchored on the Mn-O-Ir coordination structure, endowing the catalyst with excellent OER activity and stability in an acidic environment. Ir-MnO2 (160)-CC shows an ultralow overpotential of 181 mV at j = 10 mA cm-2 and maintains long-term stability of 180 h in acidic media with negligible decay, superior to most reported electrocatalysts. In contrast, when reacting with low-valence MnO2 , Ir species tend to aggregate into IrOx nanoparticles, leading to poor OER stability. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations further reveal that the formation of the Mn-O-Ir coordination structure can optimize the adsorption strength of *OOH intermediates, thus boosting the acidic OER activity and stability.
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- Yuxiao Weng
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringSchool of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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Li N, Cai L, Gao G, Lin Y, Wang C, Liu H, Liu Y, Duan H, Ji Q, Hu W, Tan H, Qi Z, Wang LW, Yan W. Operando Direct Observation of Stable Water-Oxidation Intermediates on Ca 2-xIrO 4 Nanocrystals for Efficient Acidic Oxygen Evolution. Nano Lett 2022; 22:6988-6996. [PMID: 36005477 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
We report Ca2-xIrO4 nanocrystals exhibit record stability of 300 h continuous operation and high iridium mass activity (248 A gIr-1 at 1.5 VRHE) that is about 62 times that of benchmark IrO2. Lattice-resolution images and surface-sensitive spectroscopies demonstrate the Ir-rich surface layer (evolved from one-dimensional connected edge-sharing [IrO6] octahedrons) with high relative content of Ir5+ sites, which is responsible for the high activity and long-term stability. Combining operando infrared spectroscopy with X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we report the first direct observation of key intermediates absorbing at 946 cm-1 (Ir6+═O site) and absorbing at 870 cm-1 (Ir6+OO- site) on iridium-based oxides electrocatalysts, and further discover the Ir6+═O and Ir6+OO- intermediates are stable even just from 1.3 VRHE. Density functional theory calculations indicate the catalytic activity of Ca2IrO4 is enhanced remarkably after surface Ca leaching, and suggest IrOO- and Ir═O intermediates can be stabilized on positive charged active sites of Ir-rich surface layer.
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- Na Li
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117575 Singapore
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117575 Singapore
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- MOE Key Laboratory for Non-equilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, China
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Wang Y, Zhang L, Yin K, Zhang J, Gao H, Liu N, Peng Z, Zhang Z. Nanoporous Iridium-Based Alloy Nanowires as Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts Toward Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2019; 11:39728-39736. [PMID: 31592630 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b09412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Acidic proton exchange membrane water electrolysis is a prospective energy conversion technology for future hydrogen production. However, its wide application is limited by the excessive dependence of oxygen evolution reaction on precious metals at anode. To address this issue, herein, we report a class of IrM (M = Ni, Co, Fe) catalysts with diluted Ir content fabricated via a eutectic-directed self-templating strategy. Manipulated by the eutectic reaction and dealloying inheritance effect, the IrM catalysts show a unique network structure composed of intertwining nanoporous nanowires. The catalytic activities of IrM nanowires show a transition-metal-dependent feature, among which IrNi delivers the best activity with an exceptionally low overpotential to drive 10 mA cm-2 (283 mV) and a high mass activity at 1.53 V vs reversible hydrogen electrode (0.732 A mg-1). Such performance represents a major leap forward compared to that of commercial IrO2 and most of state-of-the-art Ir-based acidic catalysts toward oxygen evolution reaction. First-principles calculations indicate that the 3d transition-metal-dependent catalytic activity of IrM electrocatalysts is related to ligand effect, wherein the negative shift of Ir d-band center after alloying can effectively weaken the adsorption of reaction intermediates.
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- Ying Wang
- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering , Shandong University , Jingshi Road 17923 , Jinan 250061 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering , Queensland University of Technology , Gardens Point Campus , Brisbane , QLD 4001 , Australia
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- SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Lab of MEMS of Ministry of Education , Southeast University , Nanjing 210096 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering , Shandong University , Jingshi Road 17923 , Jinan 250061 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering , Shandong University , Jingshi Road 17923 , Jinan 250061 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering , Shandong University , Jingshi Road 17923 , Jinan 250061 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Changchun 130022 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering , Shandong University , Jingshi Road 17923 , Jinan 250061 , P. R. China
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