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Jones TE, Teschner D, Piccinin S. Toward Realistic Models of the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chem Rev 2024; 124:9136-9223. [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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Govind Rajan A, Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Strongly facet-dependent activity of iron-doped β-nickel oxyhydroxide for the oxygen evolution reaction. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:14721-14733. [PMID: 38716632 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00315b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
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Iron (Fe)-doped β-nickel oxyhydroxide (β-NiOOH) is a highly active, noble-metal-free electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), with the latter being the bottleneck in electrochemical water splitting for sustainable hydrogen production. The mechanisms underlying how the Fe dopant modulates this host material's water electro-oxidation activity are still not entirely clear. Here, we combine hybrid density functional theory (DFT) and Hubbard-corrected DFT to investigate the OER activity of the most thermodynamically favorable (and therefore, expected to be the majority) crystallographic facets of β-NiOOH, namely (0001) and (101̄0). By considering active sites involving both oxidation and reduction of the transition-metal active center during the redox cycle on these two different facets, we show that six-fold-lattice-coordinated Fe in β-NiOOH is redox inactive towards both oxidation and reduction while five-fold-lattice-coordinated Fe in β-NiOOH does exhibit redox activity. However, the determined redox activity of Fe (or lack of it) is not indicative of good (or bad) performance as a dopant on these two facets. Three of the four active sites investigated (oxo and hydroxo sites on (0001) and a hydrated site on (101̄0)) exhibit only a marginal (<0.1 V) decrease or increase in the thermodynamic overpotential upon doping with Fe. Only one of the redox-active sites investigated, the hydroxo site on (101̄0), exhibits a large attenuation in the thermodynamic overpotential upon doping (to ∼0.52 V from 0.86 V), although the doped overpotential is larger than that observed experimentally for Fe-doped NiOOH. Thus, although pure β-NiOOH facets containing four-, five-, or six-fold lattice-coordinated Ni sites have roughly equal OER activities, yielding similar OER onset potentials (shown in A. Govind Rajan, J. M. P. Martirez and E. A. Carter, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 3600-3612), only those facets containing four-fold lattice-coordinated Fe (e.g., as shown in J. M. P. Martirez and E. A. Carter, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 693-705) would be active under analogous conditions for the Fe-doped material. It follows that, while undoped β-NiOOH demonstrates a roughly facet-independent oxygen evolution activity, the activity of Fe-doped β-NiOOH strongly depends on the crystallographic facet. Our study further motivates the investigation of strategies for the selective growth of facets with low iron coordination number to enhance the water splitting activity of Fe-doped β-NiOOH.
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- Ananth Govind Rajan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India.
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, USA
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-6655, USA
- Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, USA.
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Xing Z, Huang M, Yao Q, Feng G, Zhu J, Zhu QL, Lu ZH. Engineering Electronic and Morphological Structure of Metal-Organic-Framework-Derived Iron-Doped Ni 2P/NC Hollow Polyhedrons for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution. Inorg Chem 2023. [PMID: 37471103 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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The rational design of an oxygen electrocatalyst with low cost and high activity is greatly desired for realization of the practical water-splitting industry. Herein, we put forward a rational method to construct nonprecious-metal catalysts with high activity by designing the microstructure and modulating the electronic state. Iron (Fe)-doped Ni2P hollow polyhedrons decorated with nitrogen-doped carbon (Fe-Ni2P/NC HPs) are prepared by a sequential metal-organic-framework-templated strategy. Benefiting from the strong electronic coupling, rapid charge-transfer capability, and abundant catalytic active sites, the obtained Fe-Ni2P/NC HPs exhibit an impressive electrocatalytic performance toward the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with an ultralow overpotential of 228 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and a small Tafel slope of 33.4 mV dec-1, superior to the commercial RuO2 and most reported electrocatalysts. Notably, this catalyst also shows long durability with an almost negligible activity decay over 210 h for the OER. Combining density functional theory calculations with experiments demonstrates that the doped Fe and the incorporated carbon effectively modulate the electronic structure, enhance the conductivity, and greatly reduce the energy barrier of the rate-determining step in the process of OER. Thus, fast OER kinetics is realized. Moreover, this synthetic strategy can be extended to the synthesis of Fe-NiS2/NC HPs and Fe-NiSe2/NC HPs with excellent OER performance and long-term durability. This work furnishes an instructive idea in pursuit of nonprecious-metal materials with robust electrocatalytic activity and long durability.
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- Zhiyuan Xing
- National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Energy Catalysis and Conversion of Nanchang, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Energy Catalysis and Conversion of Nanchang, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Energy Catalysis and Conversion of Nanchang, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Laboratory for Environment and Energy Catalysis of Jiangxi Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Energy Catalysis and Conversion of Nanchang, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Energy Catalysis and Conversion of Nanchang, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Energy Catalysis and Conversion of Nanchang, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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He ZD, Tesch R, Eslamibidgoli MJ, Eikerling MH, Kowalski PM. Low-spin state of Fe in Fe-doped NiOOH electrocatalysts. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3498. [PMID: 37311755 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38978-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023] Open
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Doping with Fe boosts the electrocatalytic performance of NiOOH for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). To understand this effect, we have employed state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations and thermodynamic modeling. Our study reveals that at low concentrations Fe exists in a low-spin state. Only this spin state explains the large solubility limit of Fe and similarity of Fe-O and Ni-O bond lengths measured in the Fe-doped NiOOH phase. The low-spin state renders the surface Fe sites highly active for the OER. The low-to-high spin transition at the Fe concentration of ~ 25% is consistent with the experimentally determined solubility limit of Fe in NiOOH. The thermodynamic overpotentials computed for doped and pure materials, η = 0.42 V and 0.77 V, agree well with the measured values. Our results indicate a key role of the low-spin state of Fe for the OER activity of Fe-doped NiOOH electrocatalysts.
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- Zheng-Da He
- Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany
- JARA Energy & Center for Simulation and Data Science (CSD), 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany
- JARA Energy & Center for Simulation and Data Science (CSD), 52425, Jülich, Germany
- Chair of Theory and Computation of Energy Materials, Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany
- JARA Energy & Center for Simulation and Data Science (CSD), 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany
- JARA Energy & Center for Simulation and Data Science (CSD), 52425, Jülich, Germany
- Chair of Theory and Computation of Energy Materials, Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany.
- JARA Energy & Center for Simulation and Data Science (CSD), 52425, Jülich, Germany.
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He S, Li C, Chen Y, Wang T, Liao X, Li Q, Hu W, Yuan W, Lin H. Converting inert AlOOH into efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction via structural/electronic modulation. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 627:532-540. [PMID: 35870405 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.07.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Efficient and stable water-splitting electrocatalysts play a key role to obtain green and clean hydrogen energy. However, only a few kinds of materials display an intrinsically good performance towards water splitting. It is significant but challengeable to effectively improve the catalytic activity of inert or less active catalysts for water splitting. Herein, we present a structural/electronic modulation strategy to convert inert AlOOH nanorods into catalytic nanosheets for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) via ball milling, plasma etching and Co doping. Compared to inert AlOOH, the modulated AlOOH delivers much better OER performance with a low overpotential of 400 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and a very low Tafel slope of 52 mV dec-1, even lower than commercial OER catalyst RuO2. Significant performance enhancement is attributed to the electronic and structural modulation. The electronic structure is effectively improved by Co doping, ball milling-induced shear strain, plasma etching-caused rich vacancies; abrupt morphology/microstructure change from nanorod to nanoparticle to nanosheet, as well as rich defects caused by ball milling and plasma etching, can significantly increase active sites; the free energy change of the potential determining step of modulated AlOOH decreases from 2.93 eV to 1.70 eV, suggesting a smaller overpotential is needed to drive the OER processes. This strategy can be extended to improve the electrocatalytic performance for other materials with inert or less catalytic activity.
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- Shijie He
- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China; Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, PR China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China.
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Kumar M, Piccinin S, Srinivasan V. Direct and indirect role of Fe doping in NiOOH monolayer for water oxidation catalysis. Chemphyschem 2022; 23:e202200085. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Manish Kumar
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune Physics INDIA
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- Istituto Officina dei Materiali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto Officina dei Materiali ITALY
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal Chemistry AB-2 225, IISER BhopalBhopal By-pass RoadBhauri 462066 Bhopal INDIA
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Hu Q, Xue Y, Kang J, Scivetti I, Teobaldi G, Selloni A, Guo L, Liu LM. Structure and Oxygen Evolution Activity of β-NiOOH: Where Are the Protons? ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Qi Hu
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center, 100193 Beijing, China
- School of Physics, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- School of Physics, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- School of Chemistry, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- Scientific Computing Department, Daresbury Laboratory, STFC UKRI, WA4 4FS Warrington, U.K
- Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX Liverpool, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, SO17 1BJ Southampton, U.K
- Scientific Computing Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC UKRI, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX Didcot, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544 New Jersey, United States
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- School of Chemistry, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- School of Physics, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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Govind Rajan A, Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Coupled Effects of Temperature, Pressure, and pH on Water Oxidation Thermodynamics and Kinetics. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Ananth Govind Rajan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
- 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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Liu J, Xiao J, Wang Z, Yuan H, Lu Z, Luo B, Tian E, Waterhouse GIN. Structural and Electronic Engineering of Ir-Doped Ni-(Oxy)hydroxide Nanosheets for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Activity. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Jinlong Liu
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- State Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- School of Science, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Science, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Yuan Y, Adimi S, Guo X, Thomas T, Zhu Y, Guo H, Priyanga GS, Yoo P, Wang J, Chen J, Liao P, Attfield JP, Yang M. A Surface-Oxide-Rich Activation Layer (SOAL) on Ni 2 Mo 3 N for a Rapid and Durable Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:18036-18041. [PMID: 32608085 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is key to renewable energy technologies such as water electrolysis and metal-air batteries. However, the multiple steps associated with proton-coupled electron transfer result in sluggish OER kinetics and catalysts are required. Here we demonstrate that a novel nitride, Ni2 Mo3 N, is a highly active OER catalyst that outperforms the benchmark material RuO2 . Ni2 Mo3 N exhibits a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at a nominal overpotential of 270 mV in 0.1 m KOH with outstanding catalytic cyclability and durability. Structural characterization and computational studies reveal that the excellent activity stems from the formation of a surface-oxide-rich activation layer (SOAL). Secondary Mo atoms on the surface act as electron pumps that stabilize oxygen-containing species and facilitate the continuity of the reactions. This discovery will stimulate the further development of ternary nitrides with oxide surface layers as efficient OER catalysts for electrochemical energy devices.
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- Yao Yuan
- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1219 Zhongguan West Road, Ningbo, 315201, China.,Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1219 Zhongguan West Road, Ningbo, 315201, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Adyar, Chennai, 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1219 Zhongguan West Road, Ningbo, 315201, China
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Adyar, Chennai, 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- State key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
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- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1219 Zhongguan West Road, Ningbo, 315201, China
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Deng X, Sorescu DC, Waluyo I, Hunt A, Kauffman DR. Bulk vs Intrinsic Activity of NiFeOx Electrocatalysts in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction: The Influence of Catalyst Loading, Morphology, and Support Material. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Xingyi Deng
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States
- Leidos Research Support Team, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, P.O. Box 10940, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236-0940, United States
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- National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States
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- Photon Sciences Division, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Photon Sciences Division, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States
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Yuan Y, Adimi S, Guo X, Thomas T, Zhu Y, Guo H, Priyanga GS, Yoo P, Wang J, Chen J, Liao P, Attfield JP, Yang M. A Surface‐Oxide‐Rich Activation Layer (SOAL) on Ni
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- Yao Yuan
- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 1219 Zhongguan West Road Ningbo 315201 China
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences 457 Zhongshan Road Dalian 116023 China
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- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 1219 Zhongguan West Road Ningbo 315201 China
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- Department of Applied Physics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom Kowloon, Hong Kong China
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Adyar Chennai 600036 Tamil Nadu India
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- Department of Applied Physics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom Kowloon, Hong Kong China
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- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 1219 Zhongguan West Road Ningbo 315201 China
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Adyar Chennai 600036 Tamil Nadu India
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- School of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA
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- State key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences 1295 Dingxi Road Shanghai 200050 China
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences 457 Zhongshan Road Dalian 116023 China
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- School of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA
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- Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Chemistry University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ UK
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- Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 1219 Zhongguan West Road Ningbo 315201 China
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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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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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Zhao Z, Schlexer Lamoureux P, Kulkarni A, Bajdich M. Trends in Oxygen Electrocatalysis of
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‐Layered (Oxy)(Hydro)Oxides. ChemCatChem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Zhenghang Zhao
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Sciences and Catalysis SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2575 Sand Hill Road, Mail Stop 31 Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Sciences and Catalysis Chemical Engineering Stanford University 443 Via Ortega Stanford CA 94305 USA
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Sciences and Catalysis SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2575 Sand Hill Road, Mail Stop 31 Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Sciences and Catalysis Chemical Engineering Stanford University 443 Via Ortega Stanford CA 94305 USA
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Sciences and Catalysis Chemical Engineering Stanford University 443 Via Ortega Stanford CA 94305 USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Davis 3100 Bainer Hall Davis CA 95616 USA
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Sciences and Catalysis SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2575 Sand Hill Road, Mail Stop 31 Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
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Perilli D, Selli D, Liu H, Di Valentin C. Computational Electrochemistry of Water Oxidation on Metal-Doped and Metal-Supported Defective h-BN. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:1995-2007. [PMID: 30600934 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201802499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Metal-doped and metal-supported two-dimensional materials are attracting a lot of interest as potentially active electrocatalysts for reduction and oxidation processes. Previously, when a non-regular 2 D h-BN layer was grown on a Cu(111) surface, metal adatoms were found to spontaneously emerge from the bulk to fill the atomic holes in the structure and become available for surface catalysis. Herein, computational electrochemistry is used to investigate and compare the performance of Cu-doped and Cu-supported pristine and defective h-BN systems for the electrocatalytic water oxidation reaction. For the various model systems, the intermediate species of this multistep oxidation process are identified and the free-energy variations for each step of reaction are computed, even for those steps that do not involve an electron or a proton transfer. Both associative and O2 direct evolution mechanisms are considered. On this thermodynamic basis, the potential-determining step, the thermodynamic-determining step, and consequently the theoretical overpotential are determined for comparison with experiments. Small Cu clusters (tetramers) trapped in the h-BN defective lattice on a Cu(111) support are found to be very active for the water oxidation reaction since such systems are characterized by a low overpotential and by a small energy cost for O2 release from the catalyst, which is often observed to be a major limit for other potential electrocatalysts.
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- Daniele Perilli
- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125, Milano, Italy
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Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Unraveling Oxygen Evolution on Iron-Doped β-Nickel Oxyhydroxide: The Key Role of Highly Active Molecular-like Sites. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 141:693-705. [PMID: 30543110 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b12386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The active site for electrocatalytic water oxidation on the highly active iron(Fe)-doped β-nickel oxyhydroxide (β-NiOOH) electrocatalyst is hotly debated. Here we characterize the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity of an unexplored facet of this material with first-principles quantum mechanics. We show that molecular-like 4-fold-lattice-oxygen-coordinated metal sites on the (1̅21̅1) surface may very well be the key active sites in the electrocatalysis. The predicted OER overpotential (ηOER) for a Fe-centered pathway is reduced by 0.34 V relative to a Ni-centered one, consistent with experiments. We further predict unprecedented, near-quantitative lower bounds for the ηOER, of 0.48 and 0.14 V for pure and Fe-doped β-NiOOH(1̅21̅1), respectively. Our hybrid density functional theory calculations favor a heretofore unpredicted pathway involving an iron(IV)-oxo species, Fe4+=O. We posit that an iron(IV)-oxo intermediate that stably forms under a low-coordination environment and the favorable discharge of Ni3+ to Ni2+ are key to β-NiOOH's OER activity.
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