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- Title
RuO<sub>2</sub> electronic structure and lattice strain dual engineering for enhanced acidic oxygen evolution reaction performance.
- Authors
Qin, Yin; Yu, Tingting; Deng, Sihao; Zhou, Xiao-Ye; Lin, Dongmei; Zhang, Qian; Jin, Zeyu; Zhang, Danfeng; He, Yan-Bing; Qiu, Hua-Jun; He, Lunhua; Kang, Feiyu; Li, Kaikai; Zhang, Tong-Yi
- Abstract
Developing highly active and durable electrocatalysts for acidic oxygen evolution reaction remains a great challenge due to the sluggish kinetics of the four-electron transfer reaction and severe catalyst dissolution. Here we report an electrochemical lithium intercalation method to improve both the activity and stability of RuO2 for acidic oxygen evolution reaction. The lithium intercalates into the lattice interstices of RuO2, donates electrons and distorts the local structure. Therefore, the Ru valence state is lowered with formation of stable Li-O-Ru local structure, and the Ru–O covalency is weakened, which suppresses the dissolution of Ru, resulting in greatly enhanced durability. Meanwhile, the inherent lattice strain results in the surface structural distortion of LixRuO2 and activates the dangling O atom near the Ru active site as a proton acceptor, which stabilizes the OOH* and dramatically enhances the activity. This work provides an effective strategy to develop highly efficient catalyst towards water splitting. While water splitting in acid offers higher operational performances than in alkaline conditions, there are few high-activity, acid-stable oxygen evolution electrocatalysts. Here, authors examine electrochemical Li intercalation to improve the activity and stability of RuO2 for acidic water oxidation.
- Subjects
OXYGEN evolution reactions; ELECTRONIC structure; OXIDATION of water; ELECTROCATALYSTS; SURFACE strains
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-31468-0