Operando investigation of Au-MnOx thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction
Abstract
The electrochemical splitting of water holds great potential as a method for producing clean fuels by storing electricity from intermittent energy sources. The efficiency of such a process would be greatly facilitated by incorporating more active catalysts based on abundant materials for the oxygen evolution reaction. Manganese oxides are promising as catalysts for this reaction. Recent reports show that their activity can be drastically enhanced when modified with gold. Herein, we investigate highly active mixed Au-MnOx thin films for the oxygen evolution reaction, which exhibit more than five times improvement over pure MnOx. These films are characterized with operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, which reveal that Mn assumes a higher oxidation state under reaction conditions when Au is present. As a result, the magnitude of the enhancement is correlated to the size of the Au domains, where larger domains are the more beneficial.
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- Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1349284
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1413349
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Electrochimica Acta
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 230; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0013-4686
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; water oxidation; electrocatalysis; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; operando study
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Frydendal, Rasmus, Seitz, Linsey C., Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Weng, Tsu -Chien, Nordlund, Dennis, Chorkendorff, Ib, Stephens, Ifan E. L., and Jaramillo, Thomas F. Operando investigation of Au-MnOx thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.085.
Frydendal, Rasmus, Seitz, Linsey C., Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Weng, Tsu -Chien, Nordlund, Dennis, Chorkendorff, Ib, Stephens, Ifan E. L., & Jaramillo, Thomas F. Operando investigation of Au-MnOx thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.085
Frydendal, Rasmus, Seitz, Linsey C., Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Weng, Tsu -Chien, Nordlund, Dennis, Chorkendorff, Ib, Stephens, Ifan E. L., and Jaramillo, Thomas F. Fri .
"Operando investigation of Au-MnOx thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.085. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1349284.
@article{osti_1349284,
title = {Operando investigation of Au-MnOx thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction},
author = {Frydendal, Rasmus and Seitz, Linsey C. and Sokaras, Dimosthenis and Weng, Tsu -Chien and Nordlund, Dennis and Chorkendorff, Ib and Stephens, Ifan E. L. and Jaramillo, Thomas F.},
abstractNote = {The electrochemical splitting of water holds great potential as a method for producing clean fuels by storing electricity from intermittent energy sources. The efficiency of such a process would be greatly facilitated by incorporating more active catalysts based on abundant materials for the oxygen evolution reaction. Manganese oxides are promising as catalysts for this reaction. Recent reports show that their activity can be drastically enhanced when modified with gold. Herein, we investigate highly active mixed Au-MnOx thin films for the oxygen evolution reaction, which exhibit more than five times improvement over pure MnOx. These films are characterized with operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, which reveal that Mn assumes a higher oxidation state under reaction conditions when Au is present. As a result, the magnitude of the enhancement is correlated to the size of the Au domains, where larger domains are the more beneficial.},
doi = {10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.085},
journal = {Electrochimica Acta},
number = C,
volume = 230,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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