Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis
Abstract
We report a new Ce-rich family of active oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts composed of earth abundant elements, discovered using high-throughput methods. High resolution inkjet printing was used to produce 5456 discrete oxide compositions containing the elements nickel, iron, cobalt and cerium. The catalytic performance of each of these compositions was measured under conditions applicable to distributed solar fuels generation using a three-electrode scanning drop electrochemical cell. The catalytic activity and stability of representative compositions (Ni0.5Fe0.3Co0.17Ce0.03Ox and Ni0.3Fe0.07Co0.2Ce0.43Ox) from 2 distinct regions were verified by resynthesizing these compositions on glassy carbon rods for electrochemical testing. The activity of the new Ce-rich catalysts was further verified using an unrelated synthetic method to electrodeposit a pseudo-ternary composition Ni0.2Co0.3Ce0.5Ox, which produced a catalyst with 10 mA cm-2 oxygen evolution current at 310 mV overpotential. The unique Tafel behavior of these Ce-rich catalysts affords the opportunity for further improvement.
- Authors:
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Engineering Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1471242
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1570997
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0004993; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy & Environmental Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Citation Formats
Haber, Joel A., Cai, Yun, Jung, Suho, Xiang, Chengxiang, Mitrovic, Slobodan, Jin, Jian, Bell, Alexis T., and Gregoire, John M. Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1039/c3ee43683g.
Haber, Joel A., Cai, Yun, Jung, Suho, Xiang, Chengxiang, Mitrovic, Slobodan, Jin, Jian, Bell, Alexis T., & Gregoire, John M. Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ee43683g
Haber, Joel A., Cai, Yun, Jung, Suho, Xiang, Chengxiang, Mitrovic, Slobodan, Jin, Jian, Bell, Alexis T., and Gregoire, John M. Mon .
"Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ee43683g. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1471242.
@article{osti_1471242,
title = {Discovering Ce-rich oxygen evolution catalysts, from high throughput screening to water electrolysis},
author = {Haber, Joel A. and Cai, Yun and Jung, Suho and Xiang, Chengxiang and Mitrovic, Slobodan and Jin, Jian and Bell, Alexis T. and Gregoire, John M.},
abstractNote = {We report a new Ce-rich family of active oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts composed of earth abundant elements, discovered using high-throughput methods. High resolution inkjet printing was used to produce 5456 discrete oxide compositions containing the elements nickel, iron, cobalt and cerium. The catalytic performance of each of these compositions was measured under conditions applicable to distributed solar fuels generation using a three-electrode scanning drop electrochemical cell. The catalytic activity and stability of representative compositions (Ni0.5Fe0.3Co0.17Ce0.03Ox and Ni0.3Fe0.07Co0.2Ce0.43Ox) from 2 distinct regions were verified by resynthesizing these compositions on glassy carbon rods for electrochemical testing. The activity of the new Ce-rich catalysts was further verified using an unrelated synthetic method to electrodeposit a pseudo-ternary composition Ni0.2Co0.3Ce0.5Ox, which produced a catalyst with 10 mA cm-2 oxygen evolution current at 310 mV overpotential. The unique Tafel behavior of these Ce-rich catalysts affords the opportunity for further improvement.},
doi = {10.1039/c3ee43683g},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Science},
number = 2,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}
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