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Acharya N, Karki SB, Giordano L, Ramezanipour F. A Design Strategy for Highly Active Oxide Electrocatalysts by Incorporation of Oxygen-Vacancies. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2403415. [PMID: 39225396 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202403415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2024] [Revised: 08/05/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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Using both density functional theory (DFT+U) simulations and experiments, we show that the incorporation of an ordered array of oxygen-vacancies in a perovskite oxide can lead to enhancement of the electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen-evolution reaction (OER). As a benchmark, LaCoO3 was investigated, where the incorporation of oxygen-vacancies led to La3Co3O8 (LaCoO2.67), featuring a structural transformation. DFT+U simulations demonstrated the effect of oxygen-vacancies on lowering the potential required to achieve negative Gibbs Free Energy for all steps of the OER mechanism. This was also confirmed by experiments, where the vacancy-ordered catalyst La3Co3O8 (LaCoO2.67) showed a remarkable enhancement of electrocatalytic properties over the parent compound LaCoO3 that lacked vacancies. We also synthesized and studied an intermediate system, with a smaller degree of oxygen-vacancies, which showed intermediate electrocatalytic activity, lower than La3Co3O8 and higher than LaCoO3, confirming the expected trend and the impact of oxygen-vacancies. Furthermore, we employed additional DFT+U calculations to simulate a hypothetical material with the same formula as La3Co3O8 but without the vacancy-order. We found that the gap between centers of Co d and O p bands, which is considered an OER descriptor, would be significantly greater for a hypothetical disordered material compared to an ordered system.
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Affiliation(s)
- Narayan Acharya
- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 40292, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 40292, USA
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Cozzi 55, Milano, 20125, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 40292, USA
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Wickramaratne KMK, Ramezanipour F. Electrocatalytic Properties of Quasi-2D Oxides LaSrMn 0.5M 0.5O 4 (M = Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions. Molecules 2024; 29:3107. [PMID: 38999059 PMCID: PMC11243240 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29133107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2024] [Revised: 06/18/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
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Designing cost-effective and highly efficient electrocatalysts for water splitting is a significant challenge. We have systematically investigated a series of quasi-2D oxides, LaSrMn0.5M0.5O4 (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn), to enhance the electrocatalytic properties of the two half-reactions of water-splitting, namely oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER). The four materials are isostructural, as confirmed by Rietveld refinements with X-ray diffraction. The oxygen contents and metal valence states were determined by iodometric titrations and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Electrical conductivity measurements in a wide range of temperatures revealed semiconducting behavior for all four materials. Electrocatalytic properties were studied for both half-reactions of water-splitting, namely, oxygen-evolution and hydrogen-evolution reactions (OER and HER). For the four materials, the trends in both OER and HER were the same, which also matched the trend in electrical conductivities. Among them, LaSrMn0.5Co0.5O4 showed the best bifunctional electrocatalytic activity for both OER and HER, which may be attributed to its higher electrical conductivity and favorable electron configuration.
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Wickramaratne KMK, Karki SB, Ramezanipour F. Electrocatalytic Properties of Oxygen-Deficient Perovskites Ca 3Fe 3-xMn xO 8 ( x = 1-2) for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:20961-20969. [PMID: 38010750 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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We have demonstrated a systematic trend in the electrocatalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and its correlations with transition-metal type, structural order, and electrical conductivity. The materials studied in this work, Ca3FeMn2O8 (CaFe1/3Mn2/3O3-1/3), Ca3Fe1.5Mn1.5O8, and Ca3Fe2MnO8, belong to the family of oxygen-deficient perovskites and show a gradual increase in the ordering of oxygen vacancies. Ca3FeMn2O8 (CaFe1/3Mn2/3O3-1/3) contains randomly distributed oxygen vacancies, which begin to order in Ca3Fe1.5Mn1.5O8, and are fully ordered in Ca3Fe2MnO8. The gradual increase in the structural order is associated with a systematic enhancement of the electrocatalytic activity for HER in acidic conditions, Ca3FeMn2O8 < Ca3Fe1.5Mn1.5O8 < Ca3Fe2MnO8. While the improvement of the HER activity is also associated with an increase in the Fe content, we have shown that the type of structural order plays a more important role. We demonstrated this effect by control experiments on an analogous material where all Mn was substituted by Fe, leading to a different type of structural order and showing an inferior HER activity compared to the above three materials. Furthermore, electrical conductivity studies in a wide range of temperatures, 25-800 °C, indicate that the trend in the electrical conductivity is the same as that of the HER activity. These findings reveal several important structure-property relationships and highlight the importance of synergistic effects in enhancing the electrocatalytic properties.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, United States
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Karki SB, Ramezanipour F. Enhancement of Electrocatalytic and Pseudocapacitive Properties as a Function of Structural Order in A 2Fe 2O 5 (A = Sr, Ba). Molecules 2023; 28:5947. [PMID: 37630199 PMCID: PMC10459622 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28165947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Significant enhancements of electrocatalytic activities for both half-reactions of water-electrolysis, i.e., oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), as well as pseudocapacitive charge-storage properties are demonstrated upon changing the structural order in a perovskite-type system. The structural change is prompted by the increase in the ionic radius of the A-site ion in A2Fe2O5. The structure of Sr2Fe2O5 consists of alternating layers of FeO6 octahedra and FeO4 tetrahedra, whereas Ba2Fe2O5 comprises seven different coordination geometries for Fe. We note that the catalytically active metal, i.e., iron, and the oxygen stoichiometry are the same for both materials. Nevertheless, the change in the structural order results in significantly greater electrocatalytic activity of Ba2Fe2O5, manifested in smaller overpotentials, smaller charge-transfer resistance, greater electrocatalytic current, and faster reaction kinetics. In addition, this material shows significantly enhanced pseudocapacitive properties, with greater specific capacitance and energy density compared to Sr2Fe2O5. These findings indicate the important role of structural order in directing the electrochemical properties.
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Alom MS, Ramezanipour F. Vacancy effect on the electrocatalytic activity of LaMn 1/2Co 1/2O 3-δ for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:5870-5873. [PMID: 37170997 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc00961k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Development of efficient electrocatalysts for water splitting can be a significant step toward green hydrogen generation. In this work, a remarkable enhancement of electrocatalytic properties is achieved through the incorporation of oxygen-vacancies in a perovskite oxide, while maintaining the same structural framework. The oxygen-deficient material La2MnCoO6-δ (LaMn0.5Co0.5O3-δ) is isostructural to the parent stoichiometric material, but shows drastically enhanced electrocatalytic properties for both half-reactions of water-splitting, namely hydrogen-evolution and oxygen-evolution reactions, due to the oxygen-vacancies.
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- Md Sofiul Alom
- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
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Tang W, Zhu S, Jiang H, Liang Y, Li Z, Wu S, Cui Z. Self-supporting nanoporous CoMoP electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline solution. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 625:606-613. [PMID: 35764042 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.06.085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Revised: 06/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Efficient catalysts with low costs are very important for hydrogen production. In this work, a nanoporous CoMoP (np-CoMoP) bimetallic phosphide catalyst with a self-supporting structure was prepared by the electrochemical dealloying method. The introduction of Mo tuned the electronic structures around Co and P, optimized the desorption of the H atom, and improved the catalytic activity of cobalt phosphide. The prepared nanoporous Co65Mo15P20 (np-Co65Mo15P20) structures promoted electron transfer and provided more active sites, exhibiting superior hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance with the overpotential of 40.8 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and Tafel slope of 46.2 mV dec-1 in alkaline solution. Also, the catalysts exhibited good long-term stability.
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- Weiguo Tang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China; Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300350, China; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, 730070, China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China; Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China; Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China; Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China; Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China.
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Hong S, Díez AM, Adeyemi AN, Sousa JPS, Salonen LM, Lebedev OI, Kolen’ko YV, Zaikina JV. Deep Eutectic Solvent Synthesis of Perovskite Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:23277-23284. [PMID: 35545871 PMCID: PMC9136838 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c24223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Oxide perovskites have attracted great interest as materials for energy conversion due to their stability and structural tunability. La-based perovskites of 3d-transition metals have demonstrated excellent activities as electrocatalysts in water oxidation. Herein, we report the synthesis route to La-based perovskites using an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent (DES) consisting of choline chloride and malonic acid. The DES route affords phase-pure crystalline materials on a gram scale and results in perovskites with high electrocatalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction. A convenient, fast, and scalable synthesis proceeds via assisted metathesis at a lower temperature as compared to traditional solid-state methods. Among LaCoO3, LaMn0.5Ni0.5O3, and LaMnO3 perovskites prepared via the DES route, LaCoO3 was established to be the best-performing electrocatalyst for water oxidation in alkaline medium at 0.25 mg cm-2 mass loading. LaCoO3 exhibits current densities of 10, 50, and 100 mA cm-2 at respective overpotentials of approximately 390, 430, and 470 mV, respectively, and features a Tafel slope of 55.8 mV dec-1. The high activity of LaCoO3 as compared to the other prepared perovskites is attributed to the high concentration of oxygen vacancies in the LaCoO3 lattice, as observed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. An intrinsically high concentration of O vacancies in the LaCoO3 synthesized via the DES route is ascribed to the reducing atmosphere attained upon thermal decomposition of the DES components. These findings will contribute to the preparation of highly active perovskites for various energy applications.
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- Sangki Hong
- Department
of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011 Iowa, United States
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- Nanochemistry
Research Group, International Iberian Nanotechnology
Laboratory, Braga 4715-330, Portugal
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- Department
of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011 Iowa, United States
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- Nanochemistry
Research Group, International Iberian Nanotechnology
Laboratory, Braga 4715-330, Portugal
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- Nanochemistry
Research Group, International Iberian Nanotechnology
Laboratory, Braga 4715-330, Portugal
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- Laboratoire
CRISMAT, UMR 6508, CNRS-ENSICAEN, Caen 14050, France
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- Nanochemistry
Research Group, International Iberian Nanotechnology
Laboratory, Braga 4715-330, Portugal
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- Department
of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011 Iowa, United States
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Karki SB, Hona RK, Ramezanipour F. Sr3Mn2O6 and Sr3FeMnO6 for oxygen and hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis. J Solid State Electrochem 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10008-022-05167-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Alom MS, Kananke-Gamage CC, Ramezanipour F. Perovskite Oxides as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:7444-7451. [PMID: 35284721 PMCID: PMC8908488 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c07203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Hydrogen generation through electrocatalytic splitting of water, i.e., hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), is an attractive method of converting the electricity generated from renewable sources into chemical energy stored in hydrogen molecules. A wide variety of materials have been studied in an effort to develop efficient and cost-effective electrocatalysts that can replace the traditional platinum/carbon catalyst. One family of functional materials that holds promise for this application is perovskite oxides. This mini-review discusses some of the progress made in the development of HER electrocatalysts based on perovskite oxides in the past decade. Given the diverse range of possible compositions of perovskite oxides, various studies have focused on compositional modifications to develop single-phase catalysts, whereas others have investigated heterostructures and composites that take advantage of synergistic interactions of different compounds with perovskite oxides. The recent advances indicate that this family of materials have great potential for utilization in HER electrocatalysis.
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Hona RK, Karki SB, Cao T, Mishra R, Sterbinsky GE, Ramezanipour F. Sustainable Oxide Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen- and Oxygen-Evolution Reactions. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c03196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Ram Krishna Hona
- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Institute of Materials Science & Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Institute of Materials Science & Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, United States
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