Surface Phase Engineering Modulated Iron‐Nickel Nitrides/Alloy Nanospheres with Tailored d‐Band Center for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction

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2021 ◽  
pp. 2105696
Author(s):  
Qiming Chen ◽  
Ning Gong ◽  
Tanrui Zhu ◽  
Changyu Yang ◽  
Wenchao Peng ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Delgado ◽  
Jan Bucher

A hydrogen economy is necessary to meet the social demands for less consumption of fossil fuels and it has several barriers that need to be addressed if this technology is to become cost effective. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is one of these barriers and catalysts based on nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOx) are believed to be promising for alkaline OER. We report results of iron doping for NiOx, we synthesized by electrodeposition, combinations of iron in Ni Watts solution to develop Fe- NiOx catalysts. The best sample has an overpotential of 254 mV at 10 mA cm-2 , this result is competitive to the best results found for alkaline OER. Our methodology consists of: linear and cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic stability and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy as electrochemical techniques. In addition, physical catalyst characterization techniques include: scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and surface elemental analysis by wet chemistry.<br>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Kuznetsov ◽  
Jiayu Peng ◽  
Livia Giordano ◽  
Yuriy Román-Leshkov ◽  
Yang Shao-Horn

In this study, we employ the strategy of substitution with more electronegative/acidic A-site ions in the cobalt perovskites to alter O 2p-band center, surface hydroxide affinity, and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity and stability in the basic electrolyte. Galvanostatically charged Bi<sub>0.2</sub>Sr<sub>0.8</sub>CoO<sub>3-δ</sub> (δ close to zero) was shown to exhibit record OER specific activity exceeding not only La<sub>x</sub>Sr<sub>1-x</sub>CoO<sub>3-δ</sub> but also charged SrCoO<sub>3-δ</sub> (δ close to zero), one of the most active oxide OER catalysts reported so far. The enhanced OER activity of charged Bi<sub>0.2</sub>Sr<sub>0.8</sub>CoO<sub>3-δ</sub> can be attributed to greater hydroxide affinity facilitating the deprotonation of surface bound intermediates due to the presence of strong Lewis acidic A-site Bi<sup>3+</sup> ions, while the high stability can result from lowered O 2p-band center relative to the Fermi level. This work provides a novel example in the rational design of highly active oxide catalysts for OER by leveraging the inductive effect.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huixia Hu ◽  
xiang lei ◽  
Shumei Li ◽  
Ruzhen PENG ◽  
Jinliang Wang

NiFe layered-double-hydroxide (NiFe-LDH) and the NiFe metal–organic framework (NiFe-MOF) demonstrates the best catalytic activity among NiFe-based materials for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is important for efficient hydrogen production....


Author(s):  
Linzhou Zhuang ◽  
Haolan Tao ◽  
Fang Xu ◽  
Cheng Lian ◽  
Honglai Liu ◽  
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Developing efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial for various sustainable energy devices like rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Phase engineering has been proven to...


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