Quadruple Perovskite Ruthenate As a Highly Efficient Catalyst for Acidic Water Oxidation

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2019 Aug 25

PMID 31444337

Citations 17

Authors

Xianbing Miao

Lifu Zhang

Liang Wu

Zhenpeng Hu

Lei Shi

Shiming Zhou

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Abstract

Development of highly active and durable oxygen-evolving catalysts in acid media is a major challenge to design proton exchange membrane water electrolysis for producing hydrogen. Here, we report a quadruple perovskite oxide CaCuRuO as a superior catalyst for acidic water oxidation. This complex oxide exhibits an ultrasmall overpotential of 171 mV at 10 mA cm, which is much lower than that of the state-of-the-art RuO. Moreover, compared to RuO, CaCuRuO shows a significant increase in mass activity by more than two orders of magnitude and much better stability. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the quadruple perovskite catalyst has a lower Ru 4d-band center relative to RuO, which effectively optimizes the binding energy of oxygen intermediates and thereby enhances the catalytic activity.

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