析氧
过电位
材料科学
电催化剂
催化作用
分解水
镍
非阻塞I/O
化学工程
硼化物
无定形固体
电化学
无机化学
冶金
物理化学
化学
电极
结晶学
工程类
光催化
生物化学
作者
Justus Masa,Ilya Sinev,Hemma Mistry,Edgar Ventosa,Marı́a de la Mata,Jordi Arbiol,Martin Mühler,Beatriz Roldán Cuenya,Wolfgang Schuhmann
标识
DOI:10.1002/aenm.201700381
摘要
The overriding obstacle to mass production of hydrogen from water as the premium fuel for powering our planet is the frustratingly slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Additionally, inadequate understanding of the key barriers of the OER is a hindrance to insightful design of advanced OER catalysts. This study presents ultrathin amorphous high‐surface area nickel boride (Ni x B) nanosheets as a low‐cost, very efficient and stable catalyst for the OER for electrochemical water splitting. The catalyst affords 10 mA cm −2 at 0.38 V overpotential during OER in 1.0 m KOH, reducing to only 0.28 V at 20 mA cm −2 when supported on nickel foam, which ranks it among the best reported nonprecious catalysts for oxygen evolution. Operando X‐ray absorption fine‐structure spectroscopy measurements reveal prevalence of NiOOH, as well as Ni‐B under OER conditions, owing to a Ni‐B core@nickel oxyhydroxide shell (Ni‐B@NiO x H) structure, and increase in disorder of the NiO x H layer, thus revealing important insight into the transient states of the catalyst during oxygen evolution.
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