An in situ XAS study of high surface-area IrO2 produced by the polymeric precursor synthesis
An in situ XAS study of high surface-area IrO2 produced by the polymeric precursor synthesis
Iridium oxide powders with a surface area of more than 1 m2 g-1 (4 m2 g-2 from the H-UPD charge) and iridium-oxide crystallites less than 10 nm across were synthesized by heat treating gels formed from citric acid, ethylene glycol and dihydrogen hexachloroiridate(iv) in air. The characteristics of the resulting material was found to be strongly dependent on the heat-treatment step in the synthesis. A single heat-treatment of the gel resulted in a material with a substantial fraction of elemental iridium metal, i.e. iridium in oxidation state zero (Ir0). Post-synthesis modification of the powder by potential cycling resulted in oxidation peaks consistent with the conversion of the metal phase to iridium oxide. Linear combination of the near-edge part of the X-ray absorption data (X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, XANES) collected in situ during potential cycling and an analysis of the extended X-ray fine-structure (EXAFS) part of the spectrum showed that the overall metal fraction was not significantly affected by the cycling. The oxidation of the metal phase is therefore limited to a thin layer of oxide at the metal surface, and a significant part of the iridium is left inactive. A modification of the heat treatment procedure of the sample resulted in iridium oxide containing only insignificant amounts of elemental iridium metal.
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Hamar Reksten, Anita
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Russell, Andrea E.
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Thompson, Stephen
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Mathisen, Karina
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14 September 2020
Hamar Reksten, Anita
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Russell, Andrea E.
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Richardson, Peter
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Mathisen, Karina
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Seland, Frode
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Hamar Reksten, Anita, Russell, Andrea E., Richardson, Peter, Thompson, Stephen, Mathisen, Karina, Seland, Frode and Sunde, Svein
(2020)
An in situ XAS study of high surface-area IrO2 produced by the polymeric precursor synthesis.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22 (34), .
(doi:10.1039/D0CP00217H).
Abstract
Iridium oxide powders with a surface area of more than 1 m2 g-1 (4 m2 g-2 from the H-UPD charge) and iridium-oxide crystallites less than 10 nm across were synthesized by heat treating gels formed from citric acid, ethylene glycol and dihydrogen hexachloroiridate(iv) in air. The characteristics of the resulting material was found to be strongly dependent on the heat-treatment step in the synthesis. A single heat-treatment of the gel resulted in a material with a substantial fraction of elemental iridium metal, i.e. iridium in oxidation state zero (Ir0). Post-synthesis modification of the powder by potential cycling resulted in oxidation peaks consistent with the conversion of the metal phase to iridium oxide. Linear combination of the near-edge part of the X-ray absorption data (X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, XANES) collected in situ during potential cycling and an analysis of the extended X-ray fine-structure (EXAFS) part of the spectrum showed that the overall metal fraction was not significantly affected by the cycling. The oxidation of the metal phase is therefore limited to a thin layer of oxide at the metal surface, and a significant part of the iridium is left inactive. A modification of the heat treatment procedure of the sample resulted in iridium oxide containing only insignificant amounts of elemental iridium metal.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 March 2020
Published date: 14 September 2020
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The funding for this research was provided by Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology at NTNU (project no. 81730900), and was greatly appreciated. We thank Diamond Light Source for providing access to synchrotron beam-time on B18 (proposal 8591) and synchrotron technician Diego Gianolio for help during the recording of the X-ray absorption spectroscopy data. The authors would like to acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway through the Norwegian Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy, NORTEM (197405/F50), and Bjørn Gunnar Soleim for performing the TEM imaging.
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