Generalizable, Electroless, Template-Assisted Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Mechanistic Understanding of Perovskite LaNiO3 Nanorods as Viable, Supportless Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Media
Abstract
We present that the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key reaction for water electrolysis cells and air-powered battery applications. However, conventional metal oxide catalysts, used for high-performing OER, tend to incorporate comparatively expensive and less abundant precious metals such as Ru and Ir, and, moreover, suffer from poor stability. To attempt to mitigate for all of these issues, we have prepared one-dimensional (1D) OER-active perovskite nanorods using a unique, simple, generalizable, and robust method. Significantly, our work demonstrates the feasibility of a novel electroless, seedless, surfactant-free, wet solution-based protocol for fabricating “high aspect ratio” LaNiO3 and LaMnO3 nanostructures. As the main focus of our demonstration of principle, we prepared as-synthesized LaNiO3 rods and correlated the various temperatures at which these materials were annealed with their resulting OER performance. In addition, we observed generally better OER performance for samples prepared with lower annealing temperatures. Specifically, when annealed at 600 °C, in the absence of a conventional conductive carbon support, our as-synthesized LaNiO3 rods not only evinced (i) a reasonable level of activity toward OER but also displayed (ii) an improved stability, as demonstrated by chronoamperometric measurements, especially when compared with a control sample of commercially available (and more expensive) RuO2.
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, United States
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, United States, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 480, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
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Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
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- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
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- Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
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- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; catalysis; electrochemistry; oxygen evolution reaction; perovskite; template synthesis
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McBean, Coray L., Liu, Haiqing, Scofield, Megan E., Li, Luyao, Wang, Lei, Bernstein, Ashley, and Wong, Stanislaus S. Generalizable, Electroless, Template-Assisted Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Mechanistic Understanding of Perovskite LaNiO3 Nanorods as Viable, Supportless Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Media. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.7b06855.
McBean, Coray L., Liu, Haiqing, Scofield, Megan E., Li, Luyao, Wang, Lei, Bernstein, Ashley, & Wong, Stanislaus S. Generalizable, Electroless, Template-Assisted Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Mechanistic Understanding of Perovskite LaNiO3 Nanorods as Viable, Supportless Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Media. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b06855
McBean, Coray L., Liu, Haiqing, Scofield, Megan E., Li, Luyao, Wang, Lei, Bernstein, Ashley, and Wong, Stanislaus S. Mon .
"Generalizable, Electroless, Template-Assisted Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Mechanistic Understanding of Perovskite LaNiO3 Nanorods as Viable, Supportless Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Media". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b06855.
@article{osti_1371491,
title = {Generalizable, Electroless, Template-Assisted Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Mechanistic Understanding of Perovskite LaNiO3 Nanorods as Viable, Supportless Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Media},
author = {McBean, Coray L. and Liu, Haiqing and Scofield, Megan E. and Li, Luyao and Wang, Lei and Bernstein, Ashley and Wong, Stanislaus S.},
abstractNote = {We present that the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key reaction for water electrolysis cells and air-powered battery applications. However, conventional metal oxide catalysts, used for high-performing OER, tend to incorporate comparatively expensive and less abundant precious metals such as Ru and Ir, and, moreover, suffer from poor stability. To attempt to mitigate for all of these issues, we have prepared one-dimensional (1D) OER-active perovskite nanorods using a unique, simple, generalizable, and robust method. Significantly, our work demonstrates the feasibility of a novel electroless, seedless, surfactant-free, wet solution-based protocol for fabricating “high aspect ratio” LaNiO3 and LaMnO3 nanostructures. As the main focus of our demonstration of principle, we prepared as-synthesized LaNiO3 rods and correlated the various temperatures at which these materials were annealed with their resulting OER performance. In addition, we observed generally better OER performance for samples prepared with lower annealing temperatures. Specifically, when annealed at 600 °C, in the absence of a conventional conductive carbon support, our as-synthesized LaNiO3 rods not only evinced (i) a reasonable level of activity toward OER but also displayed (ii) an improved stability, as demonstrated by chronoamperometric measurements, especially when compared with a control sample of commercially available (and more expensive) RuO2.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.7b06855},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
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year = {Mon Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
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