High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics
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Zhang, Bo
Wang, Lie
Cao, Zhen
Kozlov, Sergey M.
García de Arquer, F. Pelayo
Dinh, Cao Thang
Li, Jun
Wang, Ziyun
Zheng, Xueli
Zhang, Longsheng
Date Issued
October 2020
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Nature Catalysis
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Zhang, Bo, Wang, Lie, Cao, Zhen, Kozlov, Sergey M, García de Arquer, F Pelayo et al. 2020. "High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics." Nature Catalysis, 3 (12).
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© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Multimetal oxyhydroxides have recently been reported that outperform noble metal catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In such 3d-metal-based catalysts, the oxidation cycle of 3d metals has been posited to act as the OER thermodynamic-limiting process; however, further tuning of its energetics is challenging due to similarities among the electronic structures of neighbouring 3d metal modulators. Here we report a strategy to reprogram the Fe, Co and Ni oxidation cycles by incorporating high-valence transition-metal modulators X (X = W, Mo, Nb, Ta, Re and MoW). We use in situ and ex situ soft and hard X-ray absorption spectroscopies to characterize the oxidation transition in modulated NiFeX and FeCoX oxyhydroxide catalysts, and conclude that the lower OER overpotential is facilitated by the readier oxidation transition of 3d metals enabled by high-valence modulators. We report an ~17-fold mass activity enhancement compared with that for the OER catalysts widely employed in industrial water-splitting electrolysers. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-00525-6
