Electrochemical driven water oxidation by molecular catalysts in situ polymerized on the surface of graphite carbon electrode

Lei Wang; Ke Fan; Quentin Daniel; Lele Duan; Fusheng Li; Bertrand Philippe; Håkan Rensmo; Hong Chen; Junliang Sun; Licheng Sun

doi:10.1039/C5CC00242G

Electrochemical driven water oxidation by molecular catalysts in situ polymerized on the surface of graphite carbon electrode†

Lei Wang,^a Ke Fan,^a Quentin Daniel,^a Lele Duan,^a Fusheng Li,^a Bertrand Philippe,^b Håkan Rensmo,^b Hong Chen,^c Junliang Sun^c and Licheng Sun*^ad

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^a Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: lichengs@kth.se

^b Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, Uppsala, Sweden

^c Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials and Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

^d State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT–KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian 116024, P. R. China

Abstract

A simple strategy to immobilize highly efficient ruthenium based molecular water-oxidation catalysts on the basal-plane pyrolytic graphite electrode (BPG) by polymerization has been demonstrated. The electrode 1@BPG has obtained a high initial turnover frequency (TOF) of 10.47 s⁻¹ at ∼700 mV overpotential, and a high turnover number (TON) up to 31600 in 1 h electrolysis.

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Electrochemical driven water oxidation by molecular catalysts in situ polymerized on the surface of graphite carbon electrode†

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