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- Title
Oxidized Mild Steel S235: An Efficient Anode for Electrocatalytically Initiated Water Splitting.
- Authors
Schäfer, Helmut; Küpper, KarstEN; Wollschläger, Joachim; Kashaev, Nikolai; Hardege, Jörg; Walder, LorENz; MohsEN Beladi ‐ Mousavi, Seyyed; Hartmann ‐ Azanza, Brigitte; Steinhart, Martin; Sadaf, Shamaila; Dorn, Falk
- Abstract
The surface of steel S235 was oxidized by Cl2 gas and checked for its electrocatalytic efficiency regarding oxygen formation in aqueous solution. If exposed to humid Cl2 gas for 110 min, steel S235 became an electrocatalyst that exhibits an overpotential for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) of 462 mV at 1 mA cm−2 at pH 7. The OER activity of the same sample at pH 13 was moderate (347 mV overpotential at 2.0 mA cm−2 current density) in comparison with OER electrocatalysts developed recently. Potential versus time plots measured at a constant current demonstrate the sufficient stability of all samples under catalysis conditions at pH 7 and 13 for tens of hours. High-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectra could be reasonably resolved with the proviso that Fe2O3, FeO(OH), MnO(OH), and Mn2O3 are the predominant Fe and Mn species on the surface of the oxidized steel S235.
- Subjects
STEEL research; AQUEOUS solutions; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; MANGANESE
- Publication
ChemSusChem, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 18, p3099
- ISSN
1864-5631
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1002/cssc.201500666