Nanovoid Incorporated IrxCu Metallic Aerogels for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysis

Shi, Qiurong; Zhu, Chengzhou; Zhong, Hong; Su, Dong; Li, Na; Engelhard, Mark H.; Xia, Haibing; Zhang, Qiang; Feng, Shuo; Beckman, Scott P.; Du, Dan; Lin, Yuehe

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01338

Title: Nanovoid Incorporated Ir_xCu Metallic Aerogels for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysis

Journal Article · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Energy Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01338· OSTI ID:1478480

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Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States). School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States). School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering; Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China). Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education of the PR China and College of Chemistry
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab. (EMSL)
Shandong Univ., Jinan (China). Key Institute of Crystal Materials
Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States). Department of Chemistry

Ir-based nanomaterials are regarded as the state-of-the-art cathode electrocatalysts in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs). Engineering the morphology of Ir-based three-dimensional architectures as electrocatalysts toward oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has been rarely studied. Here in this paper, we reported the gelation of Ir_xCu metallic hydrogels self-assembled with ultra-fine and nanovoids incorporated building blocks for enhancing the electrocatalytic performance toward OER. The composition-optimized Ir₃Cu metallic aerogels exhibited improved catalytic activity and durability toward OER. The meso-sized voids generated through the in situ galvanic replacement reaction and the macro-sized porous systems make a great contribution to the increased number of active sites. First principle calculations revealed the intrinsic optimized binding energy of Ir by alloying with Cu. The best catalytic performance necessities the balance of the adsorption and desorption energy. Lastly, the well-defined morphology and enhanced OER electrochemical performances of nanovoid incorporated Ir_xCu metallic aerogels hold a great promise in further application in PEMWEs.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1478480

Report Number(s):: BNL-209320-2018-JAAM

Journal Information:: ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 3, Issue 9; ISSN 2380-8195

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Country of Publication:: United States

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