Exceptional electrocatalytic oxygen evolution via tunable charge transfer interactions in La0.5Sr1.5Ni1–xFexO4±δ Ruddlesden-Popper oxides

Forslund, Robin P.; Hardin, William G.; Rong, Xi; Abakumov, Artem M.; Filimonov, Dmitry; Alexander, Caleb T.; Mefford, J. Tyler; Iyer, Hrishikesh; Kolpak, Alexie M.; Johnston, Keith P.; Stevenson, Keith J.

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05600-y

Title: Exceptional electrocatalytic oxygen evolution via tunable charge transfer interactions in La_0.5Sr_1.5Ni_1–xFe_xO_4±δ Ruddlesden-Popper oxides

Journal Article · Wed Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05600-y· OSTI ID:1543747

Forslund, Robin P. ^[1]; Hardin, William G. ^[1]; Rong, Xi ^[2]; Abakumov, Artem M. ^[3]; Filimonov, Dmitry ^[4]; Alexander, Caleb T. ^[1]; Mefford, J. Tyler ^[5]; Iyer, Hrishikesh ^[1]; Kolpak, Alexie M. ^[2]; Johnston, Keith P. ^[1];

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The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Skolkovo Inst. of Science and Technology, Moscow (Russia)
Moscow State Univ., Moscow (Russia)
The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)

The electrolysis of water is of global importance to store renewable energy and the methodical design of next-generation oxygen evolution catalysts requires a greater understanding of the structural and electronic contributions that give rise to increased activities. Herein, we report a series of Ruddlesden–Popper La_0.5Sr_1.5Ni_1–xFe_xO_4±δ oxides that promote charge transfer via cross-gap hybridization to enhance electrocatalytic water splitting. Using selective substitution of lanthanum with strontium and nickel with iron to tune the extent to which transition metal and oxygen valence bands hybridize, we demonstrate remarkable catalytic activity of 10 mA cm^–2 at a 360 mV overpotential and mass activity of 1930 mA mg^–1_ox at 1.63 V via a mechanism that utilizes lattice oxygen. This work demonstrates that Ruddlesden–Popper materials can be utilized as active catalysts for oxygen evolution through rational design of structural and electronic configurations that are unattainable in many other crystalline metal oxide phases.

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