An Unconventional Iron Nickel Catalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Overview

Journal ACS Cent Sci

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2019 Apr 3

PMID 30937383

Citations 29

Authors

Fang Song

Michael M Busch

Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser

Chia-Shuo Hsu

Elitsa Petkucheva

Michael Bensimon

Hao Ming Chen

Clemence Corminboeuf

Xile Hu

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Abstract

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key process that enables the storage of renewable energies in the form of chemical fuels. Here, we describe a catalyst that exhibits turnover frequencies higher than state-of-the-art catalysts that operate in alkaline solutions, including the benchmark nickel iron oxide. This new catalyst is easily prepared from readily available and industrially relevant nickel foam, and it is stable for many hours. Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopic data reveal that the catalyst is made of nanoclusters of γ-FeOOH covalently linked to a γ-NiOOH support. According to density functional theory (DFT) computations, this structure may allow a reaction path involving iron as the oxygen evolving center and a nearby terrace O site on the γ-NiOOH support oxide as a hydrogen acceptor.

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