Identification of optimal solar fuel electrocatalysts via high throughput in situ optical measurements

Shinde, Aniketa; Guevarra, Dan; Haber, Joel A.; Jin, Jian; Gregoire, John M.

doi:10.1557/jmr.2014.296

Identification of optimal solar fuel electrocatalysts via high throughput in situ optical measurements

Journal Article · Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Journal of Materials Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2014.296· OSTI ID:1333883

Shinde, Aniketa ^[1]; Guevarra, Dan ^[2]; Haber, Joel A. ^[2]; Jin, Jian ^[3]; Gregoire, John M. ^[2]

California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP); Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, California Institute of Technology
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Engineering Division and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis

For many solar fuel generator designs involve illumination of a photoabsorber stack coated with a catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this design, impinging light must pass through the catalyst layer before reaching the photoabsorber(s), and thus optical transmission is an important function of the OER catalyst layer. Many oxide catalysts, such as those containing elements Ni and Co, form oxide or oxyhydroxide phases in alkaline solution at operational potentials that differ from the phases observed in ambient conditions. To characterize the transparency of such catalysts during OER operation, 1031 unique compositions containing the elements Ni, Co, Ce, La, and Fe were prepared by a high throughput inkjet printing technique. Moreover, the catalytic current of each composition was recorded at an OER overpotential of 0.33 V with simultaneous measurement of the spectral transmission. By combining the optical and catalytic properties, the combined catalyst efficiency was calculated to identify the optimal catalysts for solar fuel applications within the material library. Our measurements required development of a new high throughput instrument with integrated electrochemistry and spectroscopy measurements, which enables various spectroelectrochemistry experiments.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Research Organization:: California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0004993

OSTI ID:: 1333883

Journal Information:: Journal of Materials Research, Journal Name: Journal of Materials Research Journal Issue: 03 Vol. 30; ISSN 0884-2914; ISSN applab

Publisher:: Materials Research SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (44)

Development of an O ₂ -Sensitive Fluorescence-Quenching Assay for the Combinatorial Discovery of Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation Gerken, James B.; Chen, Jamie Y. C.; Massé, Robert C. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 51, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201201999	journal	May 2012
High-Throughput Mapping of the Electrochemical Properties of (Ni-Fe-Co-Ce)O _x Oxygen-Evolution Catalysts Haber, Joel A.; Xiang, Chengxiang; Guevarra, Dan ChemElectroChem, Vol. 1, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201300229	journal	December 2013
Inside Cover: Discovery of New Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts by Combinatorial Investigation of the Ni-La-Co-Ce Oxide Composition Space (ChemElectroChem 10/2014) Haber, Joel A.; Guevarra, Dan; Jung, Suho ChemElectroChem, Vol. 1, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201402306	journal	September 2014
Electrochromism of iron oxide films prepared via the sol-gel route by the dip-coating technique Orel, B.; Maček, M.; Švegl, F. Thin Solid Films, Vol. 246, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6090(94)90742-0	journal	June 1994
Active thin NiCo2O4 film prepared on nickel by spray pyrolysis for oxygen evolution Tiwari, S. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 20, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0360-3199(94)E0003-H	journal	January 1995
Electrochromic windows: an overview Rauh, R. David Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 44, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0013-4686(99)00034-1	journal	May 1999
Electrocatalytic activity of spinel related cobalties MxCo3−xO4 (M = Li, Ni, Cu) in the oxygen evolution reaction Nikolov, I.; Darkaoui, R.; Zhecheva, E. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 429, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-0728(96)05013-9	journal	May 1997
Electrodeposited Ni–Co-oxide electrodes:characterization and kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction Castro, E. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 25, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-3199(00)00033-1	journal	December 2000
Electrochemical characterization of porous nickel–cobalt oxide electrodes Castro, E. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 29, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-3199(03)00133-2	journal	March 2004
NICKEL–COBALT oxide-coated electrodes: influence of the preparation technique on oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in an alkaline solution Bocca, C.; Barbucci, A.; Delucchi, M. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 24, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-3199(98)00012-3	journal	January 1999
Combinatorial discovery of bifunctional oxygen reduction — water oxidation electrocatalysts for regenerative fuel cells Chen, Guoying; Delafuente, David A.; Sarangapani, S. Catalysis Today, Vol. 67, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5861(01)00327-3	journal	June 2001
Optical and electrochemical characteristics of sol–gel deposited iron oxide films Özer, Nilgün; Tepehan, Fatma Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 56, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0927-0248(98)00152-4	journal	January 1999
Operando methodology: combination of in situ spectroscopy and simultaneous activity measurements under catalytic reaction conditions Bañares, Miguel A. Catalysis Today, Vol. 100, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2004.12.017	journal	February 2005
Balancing photovoltage generation and charge-transfer enhancement for catalyst-decorated photoelectrochemical water splitting: A case study of the hematite/MnOx combination Yang, Xiaogang; Du, Chun; Liu, Rui Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 304 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2013.04.014	journal	August 2013
Screening of Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Using a Shielded Tip Approach Minguzzi, Alessandro; Alpuche-Aviles, Mario A.; López, Joaquin Rodríguez Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 80, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/ac8001287	journal	June 2008
High-Throughput Screening System for Catalytic Hydrogen-Producing Materials Jaramillo, Thomas F.; Ivanovskaya, Anna; McFarland, Eric W. Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/cc010054k	journal	January 2002
Nanoparticle Assembly of Ordered Multicomponent Mesostructured Metal Oxides via a Versatile Sol−Gel Process Fan, Jie; Boettcher, Shannon W.; Stucky, Galen D. Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 18, Issue 26, p. 6391-6396 https://doi.org/10.1021/cm062359d	journal	December 2006
Combinatorial Search for Improved Metal Oxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts in Acidic Electrolytes Seley, David; Ayers, Katherine; Parkinson, B. A. ACS Combinatorial Science, Vol. 15, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/co300086h	journal	January 2013
Solar Water Splitting Cells Walter, Michael G.; Warren, Emily L.; McKone, James R. Chemical Reviews, Vol. 110, Issue 11, p. 6446-6473 https://doi.org/10.1021/cr1002326	journal	November 2010
Solar Energy Supply and Storage for the Legacy and Nonlegacy Worlds Cook, Timothy R.; Dogutan, Dilek K.; Reece, Steven Y. Chemical Reviews, Vol. 110, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/cr100246c	journal	November 2010
Structure–Activity Correlations in a Nickel–Borate Oxygen Evolution Catalyst Bediako, D. Kwabena; Lassalle-Kaiser, Benedikt; Surendranath, Yogesh Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja301018q	journal	April 2012
Solution-Cast Metal Oxide Thin Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Trotochaud, Lena; Ranney, James K.; Williams, Kerisha N. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 41 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja307507a	journal	October 2012
Water Oxidation Catalysis: Electrocatalytic Response to Metal Stoichiometry in Amorphous Metal Oxide Films Containing Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel Smith, Rodney D. L.; Prévot, Mathieu S.; Fagan, Randal D. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 31 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja403102j	journal	July 2013
An Investigation of Thin-Film Ni–Fe Oxide Catalysts for the Electrochemical Evolution of Oxygen Louie, Mary W.; Bell, Alexis T. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 33 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja405351s	journal	August 2013
An Optocatalytic Model for Semiconductor–Catalyst Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes Based on In Situ Optical Measurements on Operational Catalysts Trotochaud, Lena; Mills, Thomas J.; Boettcher, Shannon W. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 4, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/jz4002604	journal	March 2013
Inkjet Printing Assisted Synthesis of Multicomponent Mesoporous Metal Oxides for Ultrafast Catalyst Exploration Liu, Xiaonao; Shen, Yi; Yang, Ruoting Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl302992q	journal	October 2012
Atomic Layer Deposition of a Submonolayer Catalyst for the Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Performance of Water Oxidation with Hematite Riha, Shannon C.; Klahr, Benjamin M.; Tyo, Eric C. ACS Nano, Vol. 7, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/nn305639z	journal	February 2013
Tunable electronic interfaces between bulk semiconductors and ligand-stabilized nanoparticle assemblies Boettcher, Shannon W.; Strandwitz, Nicholas C.; Schierhorn, Martin Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1943	journal	June 2007
Electrochromics for smart windows: thin films of tungsten oxide and nickel oxide, and devices based on these Niklasson, Gunnar A.; Granqvist, Claes G. Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 17, Issue 2, p. 127-156 https://doi.org/10.1039/B612174H	journal	January 2007
Combinatorial approaches for the identification and optimization of oxide semiconductors for efficient solar photoelectrolysis Woodhouse, Michael; Parkinson, B. A. Chem. Soc. Rev., Vol. 38, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1039/B719545C	journal	January 2009
Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis Haber, Joel A.; Cai, Yun; Jung, Suho Energy Environ. Sci., Vol. 7, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1039/C3EE43683G	journal	January 2014
A survey of diverse earth abundant oxygen evolution electrocatalysts showing enhanced activity from Ni–Fe oxides containing a third metal Gerken, James B.; Shaner, Sarah E.; Massé, Robert C. Energy Environ. Sci., Vol. 7, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE00436A	journal	January 2014
Techniques and methodologies in modern electrocatalysis: evaluation of activity, selectivity and stability of catalytic materials Bandarenka, Aliaksandr S.; Ventosa, Edgar; Maljusch, Artjom The Analyst, Vol. 139, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1039/c3an01647a	journal	January 2014
Scanning droplet cell for high throughput electrochemical and photoelectrochemical measurements Gregoire, John M.; Xiang, Chengxiang; Liu, Xiaonao Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 84, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4790419	journal	February 2013
Electrochromism of heat‐treated anodic iridium oxide films in acidic, neutral, and alkaline solutions Beni, G.; Shay, J. L. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90489	journal	October 1978
A Perovskite Oxide Optimized for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis from Molecular Orbital Principles Suntivich, J.; May, K. J.; Gasteiger, H. A. Science, Vol. 334, Issue 6061 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1212858	journal	October 2011
In situ X-ray absorption fine structure and optical reflectance studies of electrodeposited nickel hydrous oxide films in alkaline electrolytes Hu, Yining; Bae, In Tae; Mo, Yibo Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 75, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1139/v97-205	journal	November 1997
Structural and Spectroelectrochemical Investigations of Sol-Gel Derived Electrochromic Spinel Co[sub 3]O[sub 4] Films Švegl, F. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 143, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.1836675	journal	January 1996
Electrochromic Properties of Iron Oxide Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition Maruyama, Toshiro; Kanagawa, Tetsuya Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 143, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.1836697	journal	May 1996
The Catalysis of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction by Iron Impurities in Thin Film Nickel Oxide Electrodes Corrigan, Dennis A. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2100463	journal	January 1987
Electrochromism in Anodic Iridium Oxide Films Gottesfeld, S. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 126, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2129131	journal	January 1979
Electrochemical and In Situ Optical Studies of Supported Iridium Oxide Films in Aqueous Solutions Chen, Youjiang; Taylor, Philip L.; Scherson, Daniel Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 156, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2999092	journal	January 2009
Combined Catalysis and Optical Screening for High Throughput Discovery of Solar Fuels Catalysts Gregoire, J. M.; Xiang, C.; Mitrovic, S. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 160, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.035304jes	journal	January 2013
Electrochromic Characteristics of a Nickel Borate Thin Film Investigated by In Situ XAFS and UV/vis Spectroscopy Yoshida, Masaaki; Iida, Tsuyoshi; Mineo, Takehiro Electrochemistry, Vol. 82, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.5796/electrochemistry.82.355	journal	January 2014

Cited By (3)

Print-Light-Synthesis of Platinum Nanostructured Indium-Tin-Oxide Electrodes for Energy Research Lesch, Andreas Advanced Materials Technologies, Vol. 3, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201700201	journal	December 2017
A quantitative analysis of the efficiency of solar-driven water-splitting device designs based on tandem photoabsorbers patterned with islands of metallic electrocatalysts Chen, Yikai; Sun, Ke; Audesirk, Heather Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 8, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee00311c	journal	January 2015
Fulfilling the promise of the materials genome initiative with high-throughput experimental methodologies Green, M. L.; Choi, C. L.; Hattrick-Simpers, J. R. Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977487	journal	March 2017

Similar Records

Discovery of New Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts by Combinatorial Investigation of the Ni-La-Co-Ce Oxide Composition Space

Journal Article · Mon Jul 21 20:00:00 EDT 2014 · ChemElectroChem · OSTI ID:1468650

Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis

Journal Article · Sun Jan 05 19:00:00 EST 2014 · Energy & Environmental Science · OSTI ID:1471242

Related Subjects

25 ENERGY STORAGE
catalytic
combinatorial synthesis
optical properties

Identification of optimal solar fuel electrocatalysts via high throughput in situ optical measurements

Citation Formats

References (44)

Cited By (3)

Similar Records

Related Subjects