Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions

Wu, Meiling; Cui, Mingjin; Wu, Lianping; Hwang, Sooyeon; Yang, Chunpeng; Xia, Qinqin; Zhong, Geng; Qiao, Haiyu; Gan, Wentao; Wang, Xizheng; Kline, Dylan; Zachariah, Michael R.; Su, Dong; Li, Teng; Hu, Liangbing

doi:10.1002/aenm.202001119

Title: Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions

Journal Article · Tue May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Advanced Energy Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001119· OSTI ID:1631952

Wu, Meiling ^[1]; Cui, Mingjin ^[1]; Wu, Lianping ^[1];

^[2]; Yang, Chunpeng ^[1]; Xia, Qinqin ^[1]; Zhong, Geng ^[1]; Qiao, Haiyu ^[1]; Gan, Wentao ^[1]; Wang, Xizheng ^[1]; Kline, Dylan ^[1]; Zachariah, Michael R. ^[3]; Su, Dong ^[2]; Li, Teng ^[1];

^[1]

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)

Efficient electrocatalysts are critical in various clean energy conversion and storage systems. Polyelemental nanomaterials are attractive as multi-functional catalysts due to their wide compositions and synergistic properties. However, controlled synthesis of polyelemental nanomaterials is difficult due to their complex composition. Herein, we present a one-step synthetic strategy to fabricate a hierarchical polyelemental nanomaterial, which contains ultrasmall precious metal nanoparticles (IrPt, ~5 nm) anchored on spinel-structure transition metal oxide nanoparticles. The polyelemental nanoparticles serve as excellent bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The mass catalytic activity of the polyelemental nanoparticles is 7-times higher than that of Pt in ORR and 28-times that of Ir in OER at the same overpotentials, demonstrating the high activity of the bifunctional electrocatalyst. We attribute this outstanding performance to the controlled multiple elemental composition, mixed chemical states, and large electroactive surface area. The hierarchical nanostructure and polyelemental design of these nanoparticles offers a general and powerful alternative material for catalysis, solar cells, and more.

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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)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1631952

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1618337

Report Number(s):: BNL-215967-2020-JAAM

Journal Information:: Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 25; ISSN 1614-6832

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Country of Publication:: United States

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