Quinary Defect-Rich Ultrathin Bimetal Hydroxide Nanosheets for Water Oxidation
- Hunan Univ., Changsha (China); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Tamkang Univ., Tamsui (Taiwan)
- Hunan Univ., Changsha (China)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
The electronic structure of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) can be modulated by heteroatom doping and creating vacancies. The number of exposed active sites can be enriched by exfoliating the bulk structure into fewer layers. Herein, we successfully achieved multielement doping and exfoliation for Co3Fe LDHs by one SF6-plasma etching step at room temperature (named as Co3Fe LDHs-SF6). The obtained Co3Fe LDHs-SF6 ultrathin nanosheets display outstanding oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity, which only needs 268 mV overpotential to reach 10 mA cm–2. Tafel slope and charge transfer resistance are dramatically decreased indicating a faster reaction kinetic rate. Lastly, the excellent OER activity can be attributed to an increased number of active sites and an optimized electronic structure modulated by the incorporation of electron-withdrawing F, electron-donating S, and abundant vacancies resulting in proper adsorption energy to oxygen species.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1593241
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-213562-2020-JAAM
- Journal Information:
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 11, Issue 47; ISSN 1944-8244
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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