Ni Foam-Supported Fe-Doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Show Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Abstract
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) involves multiple electron-transfer processes, resulting in a high activation barrier. Developing catalysts with low overpotential and high intrinsic activity toward OER is critical but challenging. In this research we report a major advancement in decreasing the overpotential for oxygen evolution reaction. Ni foam-supported Fe-doped β-Ni(OH)2 nanosheets achieve an overpotential of 219 mV at the geometric current density of 10 mA cm-2 . To our knowledge, this is the best value reported for Ni- or Fe hydroxide-based OER catalysts. Furthermore, the catalyst yields a current density of 6.25 mA cm-2 at the overpotential of 300 mV when it is normalized to the electrochemical surface area of the catalyst. This intrinsic catalytic activity is also better than the values observed for most state-of-the-art OER catalysts at the same overpotential.
- Authors:
-
[1];
[2];
[1]
- Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1542388
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Energy Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Oxygen evolution reaction; Fe doping; Ni(OH)2 nanosheets; Alkaline media; ultralow overpotential; high intrinsic activity
Citation Formats
Kou, Tianyi, Wang, Shanwen, Hauser, Jesse L., Chen, Mingpeng, Oliver, Scott R. J., Ye, Yifan, Guo, Jinghua, and Li, Yat. Ni Foam-Supported Fe-Doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Show Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00047.
Kou, Tianyi, Wang, Shanwen, Hauser, Jesse L., Chen, Mingpeng, Oliver, Scott R. J., Ye, Yifan, Guo, Jinghua, & Li, Yat. Ni Foam-Supported Fe-Doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Show Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00047
Kou, Tianyi, Wang, Shanwen, Hauser, Jesse L., Chen, Mingpeng, Oliver, Scott R. J., Ye, Yifan, Guo, Jinghua, and Li, Yat. Thu .
"Ni Foam-Supported Fe-Doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Show Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00047. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1542388.
@article{osti_1542388,
title = {Ni Foam-Supported Fe-Doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Show Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction},
author = {Kou, Tianyi and Wang, Shanwen and Hauser, Jesse L. and Chen, Mingpeng and Oliver, Scott R. J. and Ye, Yifan and Guo, Jinghua and Li, Yat},
abstractNote = {Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) involves multiple electron-transfer processes, resulting in a high activation barrier. Developing catalysts with low overpotential and high intrinsic activity toward OER is critical but challenging. In this research we report a major advancement in decreasing the overpotential for oxygen evolution reaction. Ni foam-supported Fe-doped β-Ni(OH)2 nanosheets achieve an overpotential of 219 mV at the geometric current density of 10 mA cm-2 . To our knowledge, this is the best value reported for Ni- or Fe hydroxide-based OER catalysts. Furthermore, the catalyst yields a current density of 6.25 mA cm-2 at the overpotential of 300 mV when it is normalized to the electrochemical surface area of the catalyst. This intrinsic catalytic activity is also better than the values observed for most state-of-the-art OER catalysts at the same overpotential.},
doi = {10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00047},
journal = {ACS Energy Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Cited by: 174 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Web of Science
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Theoretical and Experimental Insight into the Effect of Nitrogen Doping on Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Ni 3 S 2 in Alkaline Medium
journal, March 2018
- Kou, Tianyi; Smart, Tyler; Yao, Bin
- Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 19
Efficient electrocatalysis of overall water splitting by ultrasmall NixCo3−xS4 coupled Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays
journal, May 2017
- Wu, Yuanyuan; Liu, Yipu; Li, Guo-Dong
- Nano Energy, Vol. 35
Engineering Thin MoS 2 Nanosheets on TiN Nanorods: Advanced Electrochemical Capacitor Electrode and Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalyst
journal, July 2017
- Yu, Minghao; Zhao, Shaobin; Feng, Haobin
- ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 8
Self-Supported Porous NiSe 2 Nanowrinkles as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting
journal, December 2017
- Zhang, Jie; Wang, Ying; Zhang, Chi
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Vol. 6, Issue 2
Electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction for energy conversion and storage: A comprehensive review
journal, July 2017
- Tahir, Muhammad; Pan, Lun; Idrees, Faryal
- Nano Energy, Vol. 37
Ultrafast Formation of Amorphous Bimetallic Hydroxide Films on 3D Conductive Sulfide Nanoarrays for Large-Current-Density Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis
journal, March 2017
- Zou, Xu; Liu, Yipu; Li, Guo-Dong
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 22
Molecular Insight in Structure and Activity of Highly Efficient, Low-Ir Ir–Ni Oxide Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting (OER)
journal, September 2015
- Reier, Tobias; Pawolek, Zarina; Cherevko, Serhiy
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 40
NiCoFe Layered Triple Hydroxides with Porous Structures as High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting
journal, August 2016
- Wang, An-Liang; Xu, Han; Li, Gao-Ren
- ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 1, Issue 2
High-Index Faceted Ni 3 S 2 Nanosheet Arrays as Highly Active and Ultrastable Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting
journal, September 2015
- Feng, Liang-Liang; Yu, Guangtao; Wu, Yuanyuan
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 44
Enhancing Full Water-Splitting Performance of Transition Metal Bifunctional Electrocatalysts in Alkaline Solutions by Tailoring CeO 2 –Transition Metal Oxides–Ni Nanointerfaces
journal, January 2018
- Long, Xia; Lin, He; Zhou, Dan
- ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 3, Issue 2
A survey of diverse earth abundant oxygen evolution electrocatalysts showing enhanced activity from Ni–Fe oxides containing a third metal
journal, January 2014
- Gerken, James B.; Shaner, Sarah E.; Massé, Robert C.
- Energy Environ. Sci., Vol. 7, Issue 7
Oxidatively Electrodeposited Thin-Film Transition Metal (Oxy)hydroxides as Oxygen Evolution Catalysts
journal, July 2016
- Morales-Guio, Carlos G.; Liardet, Laurent; Hu, Xile
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 138, Issue 28
Flame-Engraved Nickel-Iron Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets for Boosting Oxygen Evolution Reactivity
journal, May 2018
- Zhou, Daojin; Xiong, Xuya; Cai, Zhao
- Small Methods, Vol. 2, Issue 7
Atomic-scale topochemical preparation of crystalline Fe 3+ -doped β-Ni(OH) 2 for an ultrahigh-rate oxygen evolution reaction
journal, January 2017
- Zhu, Kaiyue; Liu, Huanying; Li, Mingrun
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 5, Issue 17
Best Practices for Reporting Electrocatalytic Performance of Nanomaterials
journal, September 2018
- Voiry, Damien; Chhowalla, Manish; Gogotsi, Yury
- ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 10
Benchmarking Hydrogen Evolving Reaction and Oxygen Evolving Reaction Electrocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting Devices
journal, March 2015
- McCrory, Charles C. L.; Jung, Suho; Ferrer, Ivonne M.
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 13
Two-dimensional transition metal carbides as supports for tuning the chemistry of catalytic nanoparticles
journal, December 2018
- Li, Zhe; Yu, Liang; Milligan, Cory
- Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Efficient cationic agents for exfoliating two-dimensional nickel oxide sheets
journal, December 2017
- Zaffran, Jeremie; Nagli, Michael; Shehadeh, Mahran
- Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Vol. 137, Issue 1
Ultrafast surface modification of Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays with Ni-Mn bimetallic hydroxides for high-performance supercapacitors
journal, March 2018
- Zou, Xu; Sun, Qing; Zhang, Yuxin
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Revisiting CO Activation on Co Catalysts: Impact of Step and Kink Sites from DFT
journal, February 2017
- Petersen, Melissa A.; van den Berg, Jan-Albert; Ciobîcă, Ionel M.
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 7, Issue 3
Defect-enriched iron fluoride-oxide nanoporous thin films bifunctional catalyst for water splitting
journal, May 2018
- Fan, Xiujun; Liu, Yuanyue; Chen, Shuai
- Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Beamline 10.3.2 at ALS: a hard X-ray microprobe for environmental and materials sciences
journal, April 2004
- Marcus, Matthew A.; MacDowell, Alastair A.; Celestre, Richard
- Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol. 11, Issue 3
XAFS investigation of the structure and valency of nickel in some oxycompounds
journal, March 1995
- Mansour, A. N.; Melendres, C. A.
- Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 208-209
Investigation of the valence states of Fe and Co in Fe 1− x Co x O y (0< x <1) thin films by x-ray absorption spectroscopy
journal, May 2008
- Chen, C. L.; Dong, C. L.; Rao, S. M.
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 20, Issue 25
Preparation and characterization of aligned iron nanorod using aqueous chemical method
journal, July 2009
- Lin, Kuen-Song; Wang, Ze-Ping; Chowdhury, Sujan
- Thin Solid Films, Vol. 517, Issue 17
Mechanism and Activity of Water Oxidation on Selected Surfaces of Pure and Fe-Doped NiO x
journal, March 2014
- Li, Ye-Fei; Selloni, Annabella
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 4, Issue 4
Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts
journal, September 2014
- Luo, J.; Im, J. -H.; Mayer, M. T.
- Science, Vol. 345, Issue 6204
The Kinetic Parameters of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) Calculated on Inactive Anodes via EIS Transfer Functions: • OH Formation
journal, January 2017
- García-Osorio, D. A.; Jaimes, R.; Vazquez-Arenas, J.
- Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 164, Issue 11
Insight on Tafel slopes from a microkinetic analysis of aqueous electrocatalysis for energy conversion
journal, September 2015
- Shinagawa, Tatsuya; Garcia-Esparza, Angel T.; Takanabe, Kazuhiro
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Highly Active, Nonprecious Electrocatalyst Comprising Borophene Subunits for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
journal, July 2017
- Chen, Yanli; Yu, Guangtao; Chen, Wei
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 36
Amorphous Nickel Hydroxide Nanosheets with Ultrahigh Activity and Super-Long-Term Cycle Stability as Advanced Water Oxidation Catalysts
journal, August 2015
- Gao, Yuqian; Li, Hongbo; Yang, Guowei
- Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 15, Issue 9
Photochemical Route for Accessing Amorphous Metal Oxide Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis
journal, March 2013
- Smith, Rodney D. L.; Prévot, Mathieu S.; Fagan, Randal D.
- Science, Vol. 340, Issue 6128
Mechanism of oxygen reactions at porous oxide electrodes. Part 2—Oxygen evolution at RuO2, IrO2 and IrxRu1−xO2 electrodes in aqueous acid and alkaline solution
journal, January 2011
- Lyons, Michael E. G.; Floquet, Stephane
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 12
Porous Nickel–Iron Oxide as a Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
journal, September 2015
- Qi, Jing; Zhang, Wei; Xiang, Ruijuan
- Advanced Science, Vol. 2, Issue 10
Designing efficient doped NiOOH catalysts for water splitting with first principles calculations
journal, April 2016
- Zaffran, Jeremie; Toroker, Maytal Caspary
- ChemistrySelect, Vol. 1, Issue 5
Benchmarking Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
journal, October 2013
- McCrory, Charles C. L.; Jung, Suho; Peters, Jonas C.
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 45
Electrocatalytic activity of CoFe2O4 thin films prepared by AACVD towards the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media
journal, February 2018
- Sagu, Jagdeep S.; Mehta, Diana; Wijayantha, K. G. Upul
- Electrochemistry Communications, Vol. 87
A layered Na 1−x Ni y Fe 1−y O 2 double oxide oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst for highly efficient water-splitting
journal, January 2017
- Weng, Baicheng; Xu, Fenghua; Wang, Changlei
- Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 10, Issue 1
Electrochemical Study of the Energetics of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction at Nickel Iron (Oxy)Hydroxide Catalysts
journal, August 2015
- Swierk, John R.; Klaus, Shannon; Trotochaud, Lena
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 119, Issue 33
Fast electrosynthesis of Fe-containing layered double hydroxide arrays toward highly efficient electrocatalytic oxidation reactions
journal, January 2015
- Li, Zhenhua; Shao, Mingfei; An, Hongli
- Chemical Science, Vol. 6, Issue 11
Exfoliation of layered double hydroxides for enhanced oxygen evolution catalysis
journal, July 2014
- Song, Fang; Hu, Xile
- Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Ni Nanoparticles Decorated NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide as Bifunctional Electrochemical Catalyst
journal, January 2017
- Gao, Xiangyun; Long, Xia; Yu, Han
- Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 164, Issue 6
An Advanced Ni–Fe Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation
journal, May 2013
- Gong, Ming; Li, Yanguang; Wang, Hailiang
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 23
A Superlattice of Alternately Stacked Ni–Fe Hydroxide Nanosheets and Graphene for Efficient Splitting of Water
journal, January 2015
- Ma, Wei; Ma, Renzhi; Wang, Chengxiang
- ACS Nano, Vol. 9, Issue 2
Pulse-Electrodeposited Ni–Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts with High Geometric and Intrinsic Activities at Large Mass Loadings
journal, October 2015
- Batchellor, Adam S.; Boettcher, Shannon W.
- ACS Catalysis, Vol. 5, Issue 11
Works referencing / citing this record:
Fabrication of Ni(OH) 2 &NiOOH Film/Ni Electrode and the Effect of NaOH Concentration on Its Glucose Detection
journal, January 2019
- Wang, Siyan; Zhang, Litao; Tian, Yuan
- Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 166, Issue 16
Electrochemical Cathodic Treatment of Mild Steel as a Host for Ni(OH) 2 Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media
journal, July 2019
- Maruthapandian, Viruthasalam; Muthurasu, Alagan; Dekshinamoorthi, Amuthan
- ChemElectroChem, Vol. 6, Issue 17
Cation‐Modulated HER and OER Activities of Hierarchical VOOH Hollow Architectures for High‐Efficiency and Stable Overall Water Splitting
journal, September 2019
- Zhang, Jian; Cui, Renjie; Gao, Chencheng
- Small, Vol. 15, Issue 47
Transforming Ni‐Coagulated Polyferriertic Sulfate Sludge into Porous Heteroatom‐Doped Carbon‐Supported Transition Metal Phosphide: An Efficient Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
journal, September 2019
- Li, Ge; Zhu, Tonghe; Ye, Yali
- Energy Technology, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Carbon doping switching on the hydrogen adsorption activity of NiO for hydrogen evolution reaction
journal, January 2020
- Kou, Tianyi; Chen, Mingpeng; Wu, Feng
- Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1
Oxygen Evolution Reaction
book, January 2020
- Brouzgou, A.
- Methods for Electrocatalysis: Advanced Materials and Allied Applications, p. 149-169
Fabrication of Ti/black TiO2-PbO2 micro/nanostructures with tunable hydrophobic/hydrophilic characteristics and their photoelectrocatalytic performance
journal, November 2019
- Lyu, Jiahui; Sun, Guoji; Zhu, Liyan
- Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Facile fabrication of a hierarchical NiCoFeP hollow nanoprism for efficient oxygen evolution in the Zn–air battery
journal, January 2019
- He, Bin; Xu, Chunyu; Tang, Yawen
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 43
Vanadium–cobalt oxyhydroxide shows ultralow overpotential for the oxygen evolution reaction
journal, January 2019
- Cui, Yan; Xue, Yuan; Zhang, Rui
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 38
Synthesis of Iron–Nickel Sulfide Porous Nanosheets via a Chemical Etching/Anion Exchange Method for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media
journal, July 2019
- Wu, Fang; Guo, Xiaoxue; Hao, Gazi
- Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 6, Issue 18
Loading FeOOH on Ni(OH) 2 hollow nanorods to obtain a three-dimensional sandwich catalyst with strong electron interactions for an efficient oxygen evolution reaction
journal, January 2020
- Guo, Wenjun; Li, Dandan; Zhong, Dazhong
- Nanoscale, Vol. 12, Issue 2