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- Title
Controllable Construction of IrCo Nanoclusters and the Performance for Water Electrolysis.
- Authors
Mao, Fangqin; Zhao, Xiaojie; Chang, Ying; Jia, Jingchun
- Abstract
Finding a suitable catalyst is an important research direction in hydrogen (H2) production from water electrolysis. We report a synthetic method to obtain IrxCo/C clusters by polyol reduction. The catalyst is small in size and can be evenly distributed. The Ir3Co/C cluster catalyst had very good activity under acidic conditions. The overpotential of the best-performing Ir3Co/C cluster for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is only 290 mV and 91 mV when 10 mA cm−2 and 100 mA cm−2. The catalyst performance may be improved because of the synergistic effect and the small size of the prepared catalyst, which accelerates proton transfer. This approach offers a strategy to reduce costs while improving catalytic activity.
- Subjects
HYDROGEN evolution reactions; OXYGEN evolution reactions; CATALYTIC activity; WATER electrolysis
- Publication
Catalysts (2073-4344), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 8, p914
- ISSN
2073-4344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/catal12080914