Issue 5, 2022

A novel monoclinic metal oxide catalyst for oxygen evolution reactions in alkaline media

Abstract

The main bottleneck of electrolytic water for hydrogen production in alkaline media is the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) involving four-electron transfer. Designing highly efficient OER catalysts is attractive to accelerate this process. Monoclinic oxides have gained enormous interest as promising candidates for electrocatalysis due to their low cost and abundant storage. The introduction of transition metals into metal oxides to tune the electronic structure of active sites is regarded as one of the promising methods for enhancing OER performance. Herein, we designed a Fe2(MoO4)3 catalyst by a spray pyrolysis strategy and enhanced the OER performance of Fe2(MoO4)3 with Co doping, which displayed a low overpotential of 273 mV to drive 10 mA cm2. The octahedral Fe site engineering leads to higher reaction kinetics and more active site exposure. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations further revealed that the introduction of Co can reduce the energy barrier for the OER process and weaken the absorption of *–O. This work provides a new insight into the fabrication of monoclinic oxide electrocatalysts for OERs in alkaline media.

Graphical abstract: A novel monoclinic metal oxide catalyst for oxygen evolution reactions in alkaline media

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Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
18 nóv. 2021
Accepted
07 jan. 2022
First published
11 jan. 2022

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022,9, 941-949

A novel monoclinic metal oxide catalyst for oxygen evolution reactions in alkaline media

Y. Qian, X. Xu, Y. He, L. Lei, Y. Xia and X. Zhang, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022, 9, 941 DOI: 10.1039/D1QI01453F

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