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Jones TE, Teschner D, Piccinin S. Toward Realistic Models of the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chem Rev 2024. [PMID: 39038270 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/24/2024]
Abstract
The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) supplies the protons and electrons needed to transform renewable electricity into chemicals and fuels. However, the OER is kinetically sluggish; it operates at significant rates only when the applied potential far exceeds the reversible voltage. The origin of this overpotential is hidden in a complex mechanism involving multiple electron transfers and chemical bond making/breaking steps. Our desire to improve catalytic performance has then made mechanistic studies of the OER an area of major scientific inquiry, though the complexity of the reaction has made understanding difficult. While historically, mechanistic studies have relied solely on experiment and phenomenological models, over the past twenty years ab initio simulation has been playing an increasingly important role in developing our understanding of the electrocatalytic OER and its reaction mechanisms. In this Review we cover advances in our mechanistic understanding of the OER, organized by increasing complexity in the way through which the OER is modeled. We begin with phenomenological models built using experimental data before reviewing early efforts to incorporate ab initio methods into mechanistic studies. We go on to cover how the assumptions in these early ab initio simulations─no electric field, electrolyte, or explicit kinetics─have been relaxed. Through comparison with experimental literature, we explore the veracity of these different assumptions. We summarize by discussing the most critical open challenges in developing models to understand the mechanisms of the OER.
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- Travis E Jones
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin 14195, Germany
- Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Trieste 34136, Italy
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Li R, Ren P, Yang P, Li Y, Zhang H, Liu A, Wen S, Zhang J, An M. Bimetallic co-doping engineering over nickel-based oxy-hydroxide enables high-performance electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 631:173-181. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Abed J, Ahmadi S, Laverdure L, Abdellah A, O'Brien CP, Cole K, Sobrinho P, Sinton D, Higgins D, Mosey NJ, Thorpe SJ, Sargent EH. In Situ Formation of Nano Ni-Co Oxyhydroxide Enables Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts Durable at High Current Densities. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2103812. [PMID: 34541731 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202103812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) limits the energy efficiency of electrocatalytic systems due to the high overpotential symptomatic of poor reaction kinetics; this problem worsens over time if the performance of the OER electrocatalyst diminishes during operation. Here, a novel synthesis of nanocrystalline Ni-Co-Se using ball milling at cryogenic temperature is reported. It is discovered that, by anodizing the Ni-Co-Se structure during OER, Se ions leach out of the original structure, allowing water molecules to hydrate Ni and Co defective sites, and the nanoparticles to evolve into an active Ni-Co oxyhydroxide. This transformation is observed using operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy, with the findings confirmed using density functional theory calculations. The resulting electrocatalyst exhibits an overpotential of 279 mV at 0.5 A cm-2 and 329 mV at 1 A cm-2 and sustained performance for 500 h. This is achieved using low mass loadings (0.36 mg cm-2 ) of cobalt. Incorporating the electrocatalyst in an anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer yields a current density of 1 A cm-2 at 1.75 V for 95 h without decay in performance. When the electrocatalyst is integrated into a CO2 -to-ethylene electrolyzer, a record-setting full cell voltage of 3 V at current density 1 A cm-2 is achieved.
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- Jehad Abed
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E4, Canada
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L7, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L7, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada
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Li J, Song J, Huang BY, Liang G, Liang W, Huang G, Qi Jin Y, Zhang H, Xie F, Chen J, Wang N, Jin Y, Li XB, Meng H. Enhancing the oxygen evolution reaction performance of NiFeOOH electrocatalyst for Zn-air battery by N-doping. J Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Ullah H, Loh A, Trudgeon DP, Li X. Density Functional Theory Study of NiFeCo Trinary Oxy-Hydroxides for an Efficient and Stable Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalyst. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:20517-20524. [PMID: 32832804 PMCID: PMC7439378 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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NiOOH and its doped species are widely used as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media. In this work, we carried out comprehensive density functional theory (DFT) simulations of Ni-based electrocatalysts for the OER by applying suitable dopants in β-NiOOH. A range of Fe and Co atoms (%) are employed as doping agents to increase the overall catalytic ability, stability, and feasibility of NiOOH. Our simulations indicate that Ni88%Fe6%Co6%OOH is efficient, stable, and provides more catalytic sites at the surface of resulting catalysts for water adsorption and dissociation, which facilitate the OER. The lower overpotential for the OER is estimated from the higher adsorption energy of water molecule over the surface of Ni88%Fe6%Co6%OOH, followed by other electronic properties such as band structure, electrostatic potential, the density of states, and surface formation energy.
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Govind Rajan A, Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Why Do We Use the Materials and Operating Conditions We Use for Heterogeneous (Photo)Electrochemical Water Splitting? ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Ananth Govind Rajan
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592, United States
- Office of the Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951405, Los Angeles, California 90095-1405, United States
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Vandichel M, Laasonen K, Kondov I. Oxygen Evolution and Reduction on Fe-doped NiOOH: Influence of Solvent, Dopant Position and Reaction Mechanism. Top Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11244-020-01334-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chen Z, Fan X, Shen Z, Ruan X, Wang L, Zeng H, Wang J, An Y, Hu Y. Cu Anchored Ti
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as High Performance Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Density Functional Theory Study. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Zhiguo Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing Centre of Advanced Lubrication and Seal Materials School of Material Science and Engineering Northwestern Polytechnical University 127 YouYi Western Road Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 P. R. China
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Hamal EK, Toroker MC. The Effect of Fe and Co Additions on the Efficiency of NiOOH Catalyst Under Strain. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201902289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Ester Korkus Hamal
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 3200003 Israel
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 3200003 Israel
- The Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 3200003 Israel
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Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Noninnocent Influence of Host β-NiOOH Redox Activity on Transition-Metal Dopants’ Efficacy as Active Sites in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b05092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- John Mark P. Martirez
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
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Govind Rajan A, Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Facet-Independent Oxygen Evolution Activity of Pure β-NiOOH: Different Chemistries Leading to Similar Overpotentials. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:3600-3612. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Ananth Govind Rajan
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592, United States
- Office of the Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951405, Los Angeles, California 90095-1405, United States
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Trafela Š, Zavašnik J, Šturm S, Rožman KŽ. Formation of a Ni(OH)2/NiOOH active redox couple on nickel nanowires for formaldehyde detection in alkaline media. Electrochim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.04.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Liu Y, Liu P, Qin W, Wu X, Yang G. Laser modification-induced NiCo2O4-δ with high exterior Ni3+/Ni2+ ratio and substantial oxygen vacancies for electrocatalysis. Electrochim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.11.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Gui L, Chen Y, He B, Li G, Xu J, Wang Q, Sun W, Zhao L. Nickel-Based Bicarbonates as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Media. Chemistry 2018; 24:17665-17671. [PMID: 30193405 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201804118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Oxygen electrocatalysis, including the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), is one of the most important electrochemical processes for sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies. Herein, nickel-based bicarbonates are, for the first time, developed as catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis, and demonstrate superior electrocatalytic performance in alkaline media. Iron doping can significantly tune the real valence of nickel ions, and consequently tailor the electrocatalytic ability of bicarbonates. Among the nickel-based bicarbonates, Ni0.9 Fe0.1 (HCO3 )2 exhibits the highest bifunctional catalytic activity, with a potential difference of 0.86 V between the OER potential at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and the ORR potential at a current density of -1 mA cm-2 , which outperforms most of the reported precious-metal-free catalysts. The present work provides new insights into exploring efficient catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis, and it suggests that, in addition to the extensively studied transition metal hydroxides and oxides, bicarbonates and carbonates also show great potential as precious metal-free catalysts.
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- Liangqi Gui
- Department of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Department of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- Department of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- Department of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- Department of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA
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- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Department of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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Tkalych AJ, Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Effect of transition-metal-ion dopants on the oxygen evolution reaction on NiOOH(0001). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:19525-19531. [PMID: 29999072 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp02849d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Iron-doped nickel oxyhydroxide has been identified as one of the most active alkaline oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts, exhibiting an overpotential lower than values observed for state-of-the-art precious metal catalysts. Several computational investigations have found widely varying effects of doping on the theoretical overpotential of the OER on NiOx. Comparisons of these results are made difficult by the numerous differences in the structural and computational parameters used in these studies. In this work, within a consistent framework, we calculate the theoretical overpotentials for reactions occurring on the most stable, basal plane of undoped and doped β-NiOOH. We compare the activities of Fe(iii), Co(iii), and Mn(iii) doping using density functional theory with Hubbard-like U corrections on the transition-metal d orbitals. We compare the effect of surface and subsurface doping in order to establish whether the dopants act as new active sites for the reaction or whether they induce more widespread changes in the material. The results of our study find only a small reduction in the overpotential (∼0.1 and ≤0.05 V when doped in the surface and subsurface layers, respectively) for the three dopants, if doped in the dominant basal plane. This is much less than the reductions of 0.3 V experimentally observed for the most active Fe-doped systems. Furthermore, the magnitudes of reductions in overpotentials for the three dopants are similar. This work therefore disqualifies the possibility of enhancing the activity of the dominant exposed basal plane of β-NiOOH through substitutional doping.
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Fidelsky V, Toroker MC. The secret behind the success of doping nickel oxyhydroxide with iron. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:7491-7497. [PMID: 28197563 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp08590c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Discovering better catalysts for water splitting is the holy grail of the renewable energy field. One of the most successful water oxidation catalysts is nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH), which is chemically active only as a result of doping with Fe. In order to shed light on how Fe improves efficiency, we perform Density Functional Theory +U (DFT+U) calculations of water oxidation reaction intermediates of Fe substitutional doped NiOOH. The results are analyzed while considering the presence of vacancies that we use as probes to test the effect of adding charge to the surface. We find that the smaller electronegativity of the Fe dopant relative to Ni allows the dopant to have several possible oxidation states with less energy penalty. As a result, the presence of vacancies which alters local oxidation states does not affect the low overpotential of Fe-doped NiOOH. We conclude that the secret to the success of doping NiOOH with iron is the ability of iron to easily change oxidation states, which is critical during the chemical reaction of water oxidation.
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- Vicky Fidelsky
- The Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
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Ding S, Du X, Yang Y, Wang P, Zhang Z, Hao X, Peng C, Guan G. Theoretical and experimental investigations of the electronic/ionic conductivity and deprotonation of Ni3−xCoxAl-LDHs in an electrochemical energy storage system. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:17313-17323. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01247d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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A schematic illustration of the mechanism of enhanced electrochemical performance by doping Co species.
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- Shengqi Ding
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Technology
- Taiyuan 030024
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Technology
- Taiyuan 030024
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Technology
- Taiyuan 030024
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Technology
- Taiyuan 030024
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Technology
- Taiyuan 030024
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Technology
- Taiyuan 030024
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai
- P. R. China
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- Energy Conversion Engineering Group
- Institute of Regional Innovation (IRI)
- Hirosaki University
- Aomori 030-0813
- Japan
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Deng T, Zhang W, Arcelus O, Kim JG, Carrasco J, Yoo SJ, Zheng W, Wang J, Tian H, Zhang H, Cui X, Rojo T. Atomic-level energy storage mechanism of cobalt hydroxide electrode for pseudocapacitors. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15194. [PMID: 28480885 PMCID: PMC5424148 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Cobalt hydroxide is a promising electrode material for supercapacitors due to the high capacitance and long cyclability. However, the energy storage/conversion mechanism of cobalt hydroxide is still vague at the atomic level. Here we shed light on how cobalt hydroxide functions as a supercapacitor electrode at operando conditions. We find that the high specific capacitance and long cycling life of cobalt hydroxide involve a complete modification of the electrode morphology, which is usually believed to be unfavourable but in fact has little influence on the performance. The conversion during the charge/discharge process is free of any massive structural evolution, but with some tiny shuffling or adjustments of atom/ion species. The results not only unravel that the potential of supercapacitors could heavily rely on the underlying structural similarities of switching phases but also pave the way for future material design for supercapacitors, batteries and hybrid devices.
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- Ting Deng
- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
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- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
- CIC Energigune, 01510 Miñano, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
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- Department of Electron Microscopy Research, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 34133, South Korea
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- Department of Electron Microscopy Research, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 34133, South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
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- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
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- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
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- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
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- Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
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- CIC Energigune, 01510 Miñano, Spain
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
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