Nickel confined in 2D earth-abundant oxide layers for highly efficient and durable oxygen evolution catalysts
Nickel confined in 2D earth-abundant oxide layers for highly efficient and durable oxygen evolution catalysts
Low cost, high-efficiency catalysts towards water splitting are urgently required to fulfil the increasing demand for energy. In this work, low-loading (<20 wt%) Ni-confined in layered metal oxide anode catalysts (birnessite and lepidocrocite titanate) have been synthesized by facile ion exchange methodology and subjected to systematic electrochemical studies. It was found that Ni-intercalated on K-rich birnessite (Ni-KMO) presents an onset overpotential (ηonset) as low as 100 mV and overpotential at 10 mA cm-2 (η10) of 206 mV in pH = 14 electrolyte. By combining electrochemical methods and X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies (XAS and XES), we demonstrate Ni sites are the active sites for OER catalysis and that the Mn3+ sites facilitate Ni intercalation during the ion-exchange process, but display no observable contribution towards OER activity. The effect of the pH and the nature of the supporting electrolyte on the electrochemical performance was also evaluated.
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14 July 2020
Pu, Yayun
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Sun, Zongzhao
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Agudo Jácome, Leonardo
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Russell, Andrea E.
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Huang, Limin
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Pu, Yayun, Lawrence, Matthew J., Celorrio, Veronica, Wang, Qi, Gu, Meng, Sun, Zongzhao, Agudo Jácome, Leonardo, Russell, Andrea E., Huang, Limin and Rodriguez, Paramaconi
(2020)
Nickel confined in 2D earth-abundant oxide layers for highly efficient and durable oxygen evolution catalysts.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8 (26), .
(doi:10.1039/D0TA04031B).
Abstract
Low cost, high-efficiency catalysts towards water splitting are urgently required to fulfil the increasing demand for energy. In this work, low-loading (<20 wt%) Ni-confined in layered metal oxide anode catalysts (birnessite and lepidocrocite titanate) have been synthesized by facile ion exchange methodology and subjected to systematic electrochemical studies. It was found that Ni-intercalated on K-rich birnessite (Ni-KMO) presents an onset overpotential (ηonset) as low as 100 mV and overpotential at 10 mA cm-2 (η10) of 206 mV in pH = 14 electrolyte. By combining electrochemical methods and X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies (XAS and XES), we demonstrate Ni sites are the active sites for OER catalysis and that the Mn3+ sites facilitate Ni intercalation during the ion-exchange process, but display no observable contribution towards OER activity. The effect of the pH and the nature of the supporting electrolyte on the electrochemical performance was also evaluated.
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 June 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 June 2020
Published date: 14 July 2020
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This work was nancially supported by Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) start fund through Shenz-hen Peacock Talent program, Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (No. 2016ZT06N532), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials for Electric Power (2018B030322001) and Shenzhen Clean Energy Research Institute (CERI-KY-2019-003). P. R. acknowledges the University of Birmingham for nancial support through the Birmingham fellowship program. This work was also supported by the Pico Center at SUSTech that receives support from Presidential fund and Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality. The authors wish to acknowledge the Diamond Light Source for provision of beamtime (SP21659 and SP19850).
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