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Ju M, Chen Z, Zhu H, Cai R, Lin Z, Chen Y, Wang Y, Gao J, Long X, Yang S. Fe(III) Docking-Activated Sites in Layered Birnessite for Efficient Water Oxidation. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:11215-11226. [PMID: 37173623 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c01181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
Non-noble metal catalysts for promoting the sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are essential to efficient water splitting for sustainable hydrogen production. Birnessite has a local atomic structure similar to that of an oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II, while the catalytic activity of birnessite is far from satisfactory. Herein, we report a novel Fe-Birnessite (Fe-Bir) catalyst obtained by controlled Fe(III) intercalation- and docking-induced layer reconstruction. The reconstruction dramatically lowers the OER overpotential to 240 mV at 10 mA/cm2 and the Tafel slope to 33 mV/dec, making Fe-Bir the best of all the reported Bir-based catalysts, even on par with the best transition-metal-based OER catalysts. Experimental characterizations and molecular dynamics simulations elucidate that the catalyst features active Fe(III)-O-Mn(III) centers interfaced with ordered water molecules between neighboring layers, which lower reorganization energy and accelerate electron transfer. DFT calculations and kinetic measurements show non-concerted PCET steps conforming to a new OER mechanism, wherein the neighboring Fe(III) and Mn(III) synergistically co-adsorb OH* and O* intermediates with a substantially reduced O-O coupling activation energy. This work highlights the importance of elaborately engineering the confined interlayer environment of birnessite and more generally, layered materials, for efficient energy conversion catalysis.
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- Min Ju
- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518107, China
- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518107, China
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Hu C, Hu Y, Zhu A, Li M, Wei J, Zhang Y, Xie W. Several Key Factors for Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Splitting: Active Site Coordination Environment, Morphology Changes and Intermediates Identification. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202200138. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Cejun Hu
- Key Lab of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- Key Lab of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- Key Lab of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- Key Lab of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- Key Lab of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- School of Medicine Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- Key Lab of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center College of Chemistry Nankai University Weijin Rd. 94 Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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Li Y, Wei X, Han S, Chen L, Shi J. MnO
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Electrocatalysts Coordinating Alcohol Oxidation for Ultra‐Durable Hydrogen and Chemical Productions in Acidic Solutions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202107510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Yan Li
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 P. R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry Institute of Molecular Plus School of Science Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 P. R. China
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Li Y, Wei X, Han S, Chen L, Shi J. MnO 2 Electrocatalysts Coordinating Alcohol Oxidation for Ultra-Durable Hydrogen and Chemical Productions in Acidic Solutions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:21464-21472. [PMID: 34322983 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202107510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
Electrocatalytic hydrogen production under acidic conditions is of great importance for industrialization in comparison to that in alkaline media, which, unfortunately, still remains challenging due to the lack of earth-abundant, cost-effective and highly active anodic electrocatalysts that can be used durably under strongly acidic conditions. Here we report an unexpected finding that manganese oxide, a kind of common non-noble catalysts easily soluble in acidic solutions, can be applied as a highly efficient and extremely durable anodic electrocatalyst for hydrogen production from an acidic aqueous solution of alcohols. Particularly in a glycerol solution, a potential of as low as 1.36 V (vs. RHE) is needed at 10 mA cm-2 , which is 270 mV lower than that of oxygen evolution reaction (OER), to oxidize glycerol into value-added chemicals such as formic acid, without oxygen production. To our surprise, the manganese oxide exhibits extremely high stability for electrocatalytic hydrogen production in coupling with glycerol oxidation for longer than 865 hours compared to shorter than 10 h for OER. Moreover, the effect of the addition of glycerol on the electrochemical durability has been probed via in situ Raman spectroscopic analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. This work demonstrates that acid-unstable metal oxide electrocatalysts can be used robustly in acidic media under the presence of certain substances for electrochemical purposes, such as hydrogen production.
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- Yan Li
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Plus, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
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