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Ariafard A, Longhurst M, Swiegers GF, Stranger R. Elucidating the catalytic mechanisms of O 2 generation by [Mn 2(μ-O) 2(terpy) 2(OH 2) 2] 3+ using DFT calculations: a focus on ClO - as oxidant. Dalton Trans 2024; 53:7580-7589. [PMID: 38616680 DOI: 10.1039/d4dt00734d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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The experimentally reported Mn(IV)Mn(III) complex [Mn2(μ-O)2(terpy)2(OH2)2]3+ has been observed catalyzing O2 generation with oxidants like ClO- and HSO5-. Previous mechanistic studies primarily focused on O2 generation with HSO5-, concluding that Mn(IV)Mn(III) acts as a catalyst, generating a Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxyl species as a key intermediate responsible for O-O bond formation. This computational study employs DFT calculations to investigate whether the catalytic generation of O2 using ClO- follows the same mechanism previously identified with HSO5- as the oxidant, or if it proceeds through an alternate pathway. To this end, we explored multiple pathways using ClO- as the oxidant. Interestingly, our findings confirm that in the case of ClO- as the oxidant, similar to what was observed with HSO5-, the Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxyl species indeed plays a crucial role in driving the catalytic evolution of O2 with the potential formation of the binuclear complexes Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxy and Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-OH during the reaction. These complexes are reactive in producing O2, with activation free energies of 15.9 and 14.3 kcal mol-1, respectively. However, our calculations revealed that the Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxyl complex is significantly more reactive in producing O2 than Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxy and Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-OH, with a lower free energy barrier of 8.1 kcal mol-1. Consequently, even though Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxyl is predicted to be present in much lower concentrations than Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-oxy and Mn(IV)Mn(IV)-OH, it emerges as the species acting as the active catalyst for catalytic O2 generation. This study enhances our knowledge of high oxidation state (+3 and +4) manganese chemistry, highlighting its key role in catalysis and paving the way for more efficient Mn-based catalysts with broad applications.
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- Alireza Ariafard
- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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- Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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C3-symmetric tripalladium(II) complex for catalysis via geometrical coincident interaction with C3-symmetric substrate. TRANSIT METAL CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11243-022-00519-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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AbstractThe development of efficient electrocatalysts based on non-noble metals for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) remains an important and challenging task. Multinuclear transition-metal clusters with high structural stability are promising OER catalysts but their catalytic role is poorly understood. Here we report the crystallographic observation of OER activity over robust {Ni12}-clusters immobilised in a porous metal-organic framework, NKU-100, by single-crystal X-ray diffraction as a function of external applied potential. We observed the aggregation of confined oxygen species around the {Ni12}-cluster as a function of applied potential during the electrocatalytic process. The refined occupancy of these oxygen species shows a strong correlation with the variation of current density. This study demonstrates that the enrichment of oxygen species in the secondary co-ordination sphere of multinuclear transition-metal clusters can promote the OER activity.
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Liu C, Geer AM, Webber C, Musgrave CB, Gu S, Johnson G, Dickie DA, Chabbra S, Schnegg A, Zhou H, Sun CJ, Hwang S, Goddard WA, Zhang S, Gunnoe TB. Immobilization of “Capping Arene” Cobalt(II) Complexes on Ordered Mesoporous Carbon for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Chang Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- EPR Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstraße 34-36, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
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- EPR Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstraße 34-36, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, 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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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Aditi Vatsa
- Artificial Photosynthesis Laboratory Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad Jharkhand 826004 India
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- Artificial Photosynthesis Laboratory Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad Jharkhand 826004 India
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Geer AM, Musgrave III C, Webber C, Nielsen RJ, McKeown BA, Liu C, Schleker PPM, Jakes P, Jia X, Dickie DA, Granwehr J, Zhang S, Machan CW, Goddard WA, Gunnoe TB. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Trinuclear Copper(II) Complex. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c01395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Ana M. Geer
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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Optimizing noble metals exploitation in water oxidation catalysis by their incorporation in layered double hydroxides. Inorganica Chim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2020.120161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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New 3-D Mn(II) coordination polymer with redox active oxalate linker; an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. Inorganica Chim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2020.119982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Domestici C, Tensi L, Boccalon E, Zaccaria F, Costantino F, Zuccaccia C, Macchioni A. Molecular and Heterogenized Cp*Ir Water Oxidation Catalysts Bearing Glyphosate and Glyphosine as Ancillary and Anchoring Ligands. Eur J Inorg Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202001003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Chiara Domestici
- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Industrial Engineering University of Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano SA Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Biology and Biotechnology University of Perugia and CIRCC Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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Liu N, Cheng Y, Qi H, Hou C, Zhang Q, Guan J. Promotion of the water oxidation activity of iridium oxide by a nitrogen coordination strategy. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:14909-14912. [PMID: 33179640 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc06748b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The water oxidation reaction is the pivotal half-reaction for photo-/electro-catalytic water splitting. Fabrication of high-efficiency and robust water oxidation is essential to realize wide-scale artificial photosynthesis. Here, we report an efficient strategy to improve the water oxidation activity of iridium oxide by a nitrogen-coordination method. Due to the coordination effect, the iridium oxide can be well dispersed to generate ultra-small nanoparticles and the intrinsic activity can be improved for the water oxidation reaction. This study suggests that high-performance water oxidation catalysts can be constructed based on a nitrogen-coordination strategy.
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- Ning Liu
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China.
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- The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China
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- The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China.
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Duan Z, Henkelman G. Surface Charge and Electrostatic Spin Crossover Effects in CoN 4 Electrocatalysts. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Zhiyao Duan
- Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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Younus HA, Zhang Y, Vandichel M, Ahmad N, Laasonen K, Verpoort F, Zhang C, Zhang S. Water Oxidation at Neutral pH using a Highly Active Copper-Based Electrocatalyst. CHEMSUSCHEM 2020; 13:5088-5099. [PMID: 32667741 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the anode severely limit hydrogen production at the cathode in water splitting systems. Although electrocatalytic systems based on cheap and earth-abundant copper catalysts have shown promise for water oxidation under basic conditions, only very few examples with high overpotential can be operated under acidic or neutral conditions, even though hydrogen evolution in the latter case is much easier. This work presents an efficient and robust Cu-based molecular catalyst, which self-assembles as a periodic film from its precursors under aqueous conditions on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode. This film catalyzes the OER under neutral conditions with impressively low overpotential. In controlled potential electrolysis, a stable catalytic current of 1.0 mA cm-2 can be achieved at only 2.0 V (vs. RHE) and no significant decrease in the catalytic current is observed even after prolonged bulk electrolysis. The catalyst displays first-order kinetics and a single site mechanism for water oxidation with a TOF (kcat ) of 0.6 s-1 . DFT calculations on of the periodic Cu(TCA)2 (HTCA=1-mesityl-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxylic acid) film reveal that TCA defects within the film create CuI active sites that provide a low overpotential route for OER, which involves CuI , CuII -OH, CuIII =O and CuII -OOH intermediates and is enabled at a potential of 1.54 V (vs. RHE), requiring an overpotential of 0.31 V. This corresponds well with an overpotential of approximately 0.29 V obtained experimentally for the grown catalytic film after 100 CV cycles at pH 6. However, to reach a higher current density of 1 mA cm-2 , an overpotential of 0.72 V is required.
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- Hussein A Younus
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan Province Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Applied Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University, Fayoum, 63514, Egypt
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan Province Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Applied Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Sciences and Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Republic of Ireland
- School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, 02150, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, GC University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, 02150, Espoo, Finland
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- Laboratory of Organometallics, Catalysis and Ordered Materials, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China
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- Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics Research Center, Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, 100094, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan Province Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Applied Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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Chen C, Zhang P, Wang M, Zheng D, Chen J, Li F, Wu X, Fan K, Sun L. Boosting Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Creating Defects and Lattice-Oxygen Active Sites on Ni-Fe Nanosheets. CHEMSUSCHEM 2020; 13:5067-5072. [PMID: 32666717 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Layered nickel-iron oxide/hydroxide nanosheets have proven to be the most efficient catalyst for the water oxidation reaction. Introducing structural defects to the nanosheets is a particularly attractive method for increasing the number of active sites and tailoring the intrinsic electronic properties. Herein, defects were introduced on Ni-Fe nanosheets through sequentially electrodoping and dedoping the surface of the material with tetramethylammonium ions. The as-prepared defect-rich Ni-Fe nanosheets showed an enhanced catalytic performance for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) compared with conventional NiFe layered double hydroxides (LDHs), exhibiting an overpotential of only 172 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm-2 . The relationship between pH and OER activity indicated that the lattice oxygens participated in the catalytic OER process as active sites. This work provides new insights into the understanding of the structure-activity relationship of layered materials and helps to develop new methods to implement defects on such frameworks aided by organic molecules.
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- Chi Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
- Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
- Department of Chemistry School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 10044, Sweden
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Ma Y, Lu Z, Li S, Wu J, Wang J, Du Y, Sun J, Xu P. In Situ Growth of Amorphous Fe(OH) 3 on Nickel Nitrate Hydroxide Nanoarrays for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:12668-12676. [PMID: 32119520 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b19437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Development of highly efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is urgently demanded by the clean hydrogen energy. Herein, in order to further boost the OER activity of metal nitrate hydroxide materials, amorphous Fe(OH)3 layer is in situ grown on nickel nitrate hydroxide (NiNH) nanoarrays supported on nickel foam (NF) through an interfacial hydrolysis approach, where the loading amount of the Fe(OH)3 can be simply manipulated by the hydrolysis time. Taking advantage of the synergy of Fe(OH)3 and NiNH, the optimized Fe(OH)3@NiNH/NF sample shows a very promising electrocatalytic OER activity in 1 M KOH solution, requiring a very low overpotential of 212 mV vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) to deliver a geometrical catalytic current density of 100 mA cm-2 and a low Tafel slope of 49 mV dec-1. This work provides a new strategy for boosting the electrocatalytic activity of metal hydroxide nitrates through the interface engineering.
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- Yan Ma
- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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Babar NUA, Saddiqa A, Nisar L, Gilani SR, Joya KS. Surface-assembled non-noble metal nanoscale Ni-colloidal thin-films as efficient electrocatalysts for water oxidation. RSC Adv 2019; 9:37274-37286. [PMID: 35542249 PMCID: PMC9075524 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra07388d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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A highly operative and inexpensive water oxidation scheme using an efficient nanoscale electrocatalyst is vastly demanded for optimum H2 production, CO2 reduction, and has attracted increased attention for chemical energy conversion. We present here a simple route to make efficient electrocatalytic colloidal nanoparticles of nickel out of mere metal ions in a simple borate buffer system. The simple and annealed Ni-colloidal nanoparticles (Ni-CNPs) resulted in a facile transformation into ultrafine films, which further activated the catalysts, while initiating OER just at the overpotential η = 250 mV (1.48 V vs. RHE) under benign conditions. They also showed high porosity and favorable kinetics while displaying impressive Tafel slopes of just 51 mV dec−1, and a high TOF value of 0.79 s−1 at 0.35 V was observed for Ni-CNPs/FTO500. These electrocatalysts also showed long-term stability during the bulk water electrolysis experiment conducted for a continuous 20 hours without notable catalytic degradation, which ensures their economic benefits. The electrochemical data, CVs, kinetic study, short-term durability, extended catalytic stability, SEM analysis, and other supporting data provide compelling evidence that these non-precious, metal-based, electroactive, catalytic, colloidal thin-films (simple and annealed) with nanoscale morphological attributes presented promising catalytic performance under the conditions used herein. Highly applied and accessible electrocatalytic system derived from simple Ni-colloids has been explored to facilely derive kinetically sluggish water oxidation reaction. Ni-catalysts also present well-balanced kinetics of OER and high durability.![]()
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- Noor-Ul-Ain Babar
- Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) GT Road 54890 Lahore Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) GT Road 54890 Lahore Pakistan
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan-60800 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) GT Road 54890 Lahore Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) GT Road 54890 Lahore Pakistan .,Institute of Chemical Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan-60800 Pakistan
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