High-Performance Pyrochlore-Type Yttrium Ruthenate Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media
Abstract
Development of acid-stable electrocatalysts with low overpotential for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a major challenge to produce hydrogen directly from water. We report in this paper a pyrochlore yttrium ruthenate (Y2Ru2O7-δ) electrocatalyst that has significantly enhanced performance toward OER in acid media over the best-known catalysts, with an onset overpotential of 190 mV and high stability in 0.1 M perchloric acid solution. X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) indicates Y2Ru2O7-δ electrocatalyst had a low valence state that favors the high OER activity. Density functional theory (DFT) calculation shows this pyrochlore has lower band center energy for the overlap between Ru 4d and O 2p orbitals and is therefore more stable Ru–O bond than RuO2, highlighting the effect of yttrium on the enhancement in stability. Finally, the Y2Ru2O7-δ pyrochlore is also free of expensive iridium metal and thus is a cost-effective candidate for practical applications.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1375508
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- OSTI ID: 1421364
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- AC02-06CH11357
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- Journal of the American Chemical Society
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- Journal Name: Journal of the American Chemical Society; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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Kim, Jaemin, Shih, Pei-Chieh, Tsao, Kai-Chieh, Pan, Yung-Tin, Yin, Xi, Sun, Cheng-Jun, and Yang, Hong. High-Performance Pyrochlore-Type Yttrium Ruthenate Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b06808.
Kim, Jaemin, Shih, Pei-Chieh, Tsao, Kai-Chieh, Pan, Yung-Tin, Yin, Xi, Sun, Cheng-Jun, & Yang, Hong. High-Performance Pyrochlore-Type Yttrium Ruthenate Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b06808
Kim, Jaemin, Shih, Pei-Chieh, Tsao, Kai-Chieh, Pan, Yung-Tin, Yin, Xi, Sun, Cheng-Jun, and Yang, Hong. Thu .
"High-Performance Pyrochlore-Type Yttrium Ruthenate Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b06808.
@article{osti_1375508,
title = {High-Performance Pyrochlore-Type Yttrium Ruthenate Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media},
author = {Kim, Jaemin and Shih, Pei-Chieh and Tsao, Kai-Chieh and Pan, Yung-Tin and Yin, Xi and Sun, Cheng-Jun and Yang, Hong},
abstractNote = {Development of acid-stable electrocatalysts with low overpotential for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a major challenge to produce hydrogen directly from water. We report in this paper a pyrochlore yttrium ruthenate (Y2Ru2O7-δ) electrocatalyst that has significantly enhanced performance toward OER in acid media over the best-known catalysts, with an onset overpotential of 190 mV and high stability in 0.1 M perchloric acid solution. X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) indicates Y2Ru2O7-δ electrocatalyst had a low valence state that favors the high OER activity. Density functional theory (DFT) calculation shows this pyrochlore has lower band center energy for the overlap between Ru 4d and O 2p orbitals and is therefore more stable Ru–O bond than RuO2, highlighting the effect of yttrium on the enhancement in stability. Finally, the Y2Ru2O7-δ pyrochlore is also free of expensive iridium metal and thus is a cost-effective candidate for practical applications.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.7b06808},
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year = {Thu Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
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