Water Oxidation Catalysis via Size-Selected Iridium Clusters

Halder, Avik; Liu, Cong; Liu, Zhun; Emery, Jonathan D.; Pellin, Michael J.; Curtiss, Larry A.; Zapol, Peter; Vajda, Stefan; Martinson, Alex B. F.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b01318

Title: Water Oxidation Catalysis via Size-Selected Iridium Clusters

Journal Article · Fri Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b01318· OSTI ID:1440760

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Jilin Univ., Jilin (China)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); The Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)

Here, the detailed mechanism and efficacy of four electron electrochemical water oxidation depend critically upon the detailed atomic structure of each catalytic site, which are numerous and diverse in most metal oxides anodes. In order to limit the diversity of sites, arrays of discrete iridium clusters with identical metal atom number (Ir₂, Ir₄, or Ir₈) were deposited in submonolayer coverage on conductive oxide supports, and the electrochemical properties and activity of each was evaluated. Exceptional electroactivity for the oxygen evolving reaction (OER) was observed for all cluster samples in acidic electrolyte. Reproducible cluster-size-dependent trends in redox behavior were also resolved. First-principles computational models of the individual discrete-size clusters allow correlation of catalytic-site structure and multiplicity with redox behavior.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes (LEAP); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1440760

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Vol. 122, Issue 18; ISSN 1932-7447

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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