scholarly journals Pencil Graphite Rods Decorated with Nickel and Nickel-Iron as Low-Cost Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrodes

Author(s):  
Ramón Arcas ◽  
Yuuki Koshino ◽  
Elena Mas-Marzá ◽  
Ryuki Tsuji ◽  
Hideaki Masutani ◽  
...  

Society is demanding clean energy to substitute the greatly pollutant carbon-based fuels. As an alternative, the green hydrogen produced by electrocatalysis constitutes a nice strategy as its products and reactants...

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1708-1713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjun He ◽  
Gang Ren ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Dongbo Jia ◽  
Shiyun Li ◽  
...  

The development of earth-abundant and low-cost electrocatalysts with high performance toward the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a key role in water splitting.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Liu ◽  
Qiaoqiao Zhang ◽  
Jingqi Guan

Seeking for low-cost and high-performance electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has drawn enormous research interest in the last few years. Reported herein is the topotactic construction of a binuclear...


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daire Tyndall ◽  
Sonia Jaskaniec ◽  
Brian Shortall ◽  
Ahin Roy ◽  
Lee Gannon ◽  
...  

AbstractNickel–iron-layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH) platelets with high morphological regularity and submicrometre lateral dimensions were synthesized using a homogeneous precipitation technique for highly efficient catalysis of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Considering edge sites are the point of activity, efforts were made to control platelet size within the synthesized dispersions. The goal is to controllably isolate and characterize size-reduced NiFe LDH particles. Synthetic approaches for size control of NiFe LDH platelets have not been transferable based on published work with other LDH materials and for that reason, we instead use postsynthetic treatment techniques to improve edge-site density. In the end, size-reduced NiFe LDH/single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) composites allowed to further reduce the OER overpotential to 237 ± 7 mV (<L> = 0.16 ± 0.01 μm, 20 wt% SWCNT), which is one of the best values reported to date. This approach as well improved the long-term activity of the catalyst in operating conditions.


Author(s):  
Shuya Zhao ◽  
Yurui Xue ◽  
Zhongqiang Wang ◽  
Zhiqiang Zheng ◽  
Xiaoyu Luan ◽  
...  

Developing highly active, stable and low-cost electrocatalysts capable of an efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is urgent and challenging.


Author(s):  
Zhikai Shi ◽  
Zebin Yu ◽  
Ronghua Jiang ◽  
Jun Huang ◽  
Yanping Hou ◽  
...  

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an important half-reaction in the field of energy production. However, how effectively, simply, and greenly to prepare low-cost OER electrocatalysts remains a problem. Herein,...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkataramanan Mahalingam ◽  
Sourav Ghosh ◽  
Rajkumar Jana ◽  
Sagar Ganguli ◽  
Harish Reddy Inta ◽  
...  

The quest for developing next-generation non-precious electrocatalyst is getting aroused in recent times. Herein, we have designed and developed a low cost electrocatalyst by ligand-assisted synthetic strategy in aqueous medium....


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Geul Han Kim ◽  
Yoo Sei Park ◽  
Juchan Yang ◽  
Myeong Je Jang ◽  
Jaehoon Jeong ◽  
...  

Developing high performance, highly stable, and low-cost electrodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is challenging in water electrolysis technology. However, Ir- and Ru-based OER catalysts with high OER efficiency are difficult to commercialize as precious metal-based catalysts. Therefore, the study of OER catalysts, which are replaced by non-precious metals and have high activity and stability, are necessary. In this study, a copper–cobalt oxide nanosheet (CCO) electrode was synthesized by the electrodeposition of copper–cobalt hydroxide (CCOH) on Ni foam followed by annealing. The CCOH was annealed at various temperatures, and the structure changed to that of CCO at temperatures above 250 °C. In addition, it was observed that the nanosheets agglomerated when annealed at 300 °C. The CCO electrode annealed at 250 °C had a high surface area and efficient electron conduction pathways as a result of the direct growth on the Ni foam. Thus, the prepared CCO electrode exhibited enhanced OER activity (1.6 V at 261 mA/cm2) compared to those of CCOH (1.6 V at 144 mA/cm2), Co3O4 (1.6 V at 39 mA/cm2), and commercial IrO2 (1.6 V at 14 mA/cm2) electrodes. The optimized catalyst also showed high activity and stability under high pH conditions, demonstrating its potential as a low cost, highly efficient OER electrode material.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Zhou ◽  
Peifang Wang ◽  
Hao Li ◽  
Bin Hu ◽  
Yan Sun ◽  
...  

AbstractOxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a determining role in electrochemical energy conversion devices, but challenges remain due to the lack of effective low-cost electrocatalysts and insufficient understanding about sluggish reaction kinetics. Distinguish from complex nano-structuring, this work focuses on the spin-related charge transfer and orbital interaction between catalysts and intermediates to accelerate catalytic reaction kinetics. Herein, we propose a simple magnetic-stimulation approach to rearrange spin electron occupation in noble-metal-free metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with a feature of thermal-differentiated superlattice, in which the localized magnetic heating in periodic spatial distribution makes the spin flip occur at particular active sites, demonstrating a spin-dependent reaction pathway. As a result, the spin-rearranged Co0.8Mn0.2 MOF displays mass activities of 3514.7 A gmetal−1 with an overpotential of ~0.27 V, which is 21.1 times that of pristine MOF. Our findings provide a new paradigm for designing spin electrocatalysis and steering reaction kinetics.


Nano Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qikang Wu ◽  
Songrui Wang ◽  
Jiahui Guo ◽  
Xueqing Feng ◽  
Han Li ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Martin Schon ◽  
Oliver Calderon ◽  
Nick Randell ◽  
Santiago Jimenez Villegas ◽  
Katelynn M. Daly ◽  
...  

Amorphous nickel-iron mixed metal oxides have been shown to be extremely efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts with good stability in alkaline reaction conditions. Thus, they offer an economical alternative...


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