Atomically Dispersed Silver Atoms Embedded in NiCo Layer Double Hydroxide Boost Oxygen Evolution Reaction

He, Wenjun; Zhang, Rui; Liu, Hui; Hao, Qiuyan; Li, Ying; Zheng, Xuerong; Liu, Caichi; Zhang, Jun; Xin, Huolin L.

doi:10.1002/smll.202301610

Atomically Dispersed Silver Atoms Embedded in NiCo Layer Double Hydroxide Boost Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Journal Article · Mon Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Small

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202301610· OSTI ID:2425523

He, Wenjun ^[1]; Zhang, Rui ^[2]; ^[1]; Hao, Qiuyan ^[1]; Li, Ying ^[1]; Zheng, Xuerong ^[3]; Liu, Caichi ^[1]; Zhang, Jun ^[1]; Xin, Huolin L. ^[2]

Key Laboratory of Special Functional Materials for Ecological Environment and Information (Ministry of Education) Hebei University of Technology Tianjin 300130 China
Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California Irvine CA 92697 USA
State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, School of Materials Science and Engineering Hainan University Haikou 570228 China

Abstract

Bimetallic layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are promising catalysts for anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media. Despite good stability, NiCo LDH displays an unsatisfactory OER activity relative to the most robust NiFe LDH and CoFe LDH. Herein, a novel NiCo LDH electrocatalyst modified with single‐atom silver grown on carbon cloth (Ag_SA‐NiCo LDH/CC) that exhibits exceptional OER activity and stability in 1.0 mKOH is reported. The Ag_SA‐NiCo LDH/CC catalyst only requires a low overpotential of 192 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA cm⁻², obviously boosting the OER activity of NiCo LDH/CC (410 mV@10 mA cm⁻²). Inspiringly, Ag_SA‐NiCo LDH/CC can maintain its high activity for up to 500 h at a large current density of 100 mA cm⁻², exceeding most single‐atom OER catalysts. In situ Raman spectroscopy studies uncover that the in situ formed NiCoOOH during OER is the real active species. Hard X‐ray absorption spectrum (XAS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations validate that single‐atom Ag occupying Ni site increases the chemical valence of Ni elements, and then weakens the adsorption of oxygen‐contained intermediates on Ni sites, fundamentally accounting for the enhanced OER performance.

Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 2425523

Journal Information:: Small, Journal Name: Small Journal Issue: 34 Vol. 19; ISSN 1613-6810

Publisher:: Wiley

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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