Constructing an Adaptive Heterojunction as a Highly Active Catalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
| Publié dans: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 32(2020), 30 vom: 03. Juli, Seite e2001292 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2020
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| Accès à la collection: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) |
| Sujets: | Journal Article adaptive junctions cycling delithiation oxygen evolution reconstruction |
| Résumé: | © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Electrochemical water splitting is of prime importance to green energy technology. Particularly, the reaction at the anode side, namely the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), requires a high overpotential associated with OO bond formation, which dominates the energy-efficiency of the whole process. Activating the anionic redox chemistry of oxygen in metal oxides, which involves the formation of superoxo/peroxo-like (O2 )n - , commonly occurs in most highly active catalysts during the OER process. In this study, a highly active catalyst is designed: electrochemically delithiated LiNiO2 , which facilitates the formation of superoxo/peroxo-like (O2 )n - species, i.e., NiOO*, for enhancing OER activity. The OER-induced surface reconstruction builds an adaptive heterojunction, where NiOOH grows on delithiated LiNiO2 (delithiated-LiNiO2 /NiOOH). At this junction, the lithium vacancies within the delithiated LiNiO2 optimize the electronic structure of the surface NiOOH to form stable NiOO* species, which enables better OER activity. This finding provides new insight for designing highly active catalysts with stable superoxo-like/peroxo-like (O2 )n - for water oxidation |
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| Description: | Date Revised 16.11.2020 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1521-4095 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/adma.202001292 |