Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions
Abstract
Efficient electrocatalysts are critical in various clean energy conversion and storage systems. Polyelemental nanomaterials are attractive as multi-functional catalysts due to their wide compositions and synergistic properties. However, controlled synthesis of polyelemental nanomaterials is difficult due to their complex composition. Herein, we present a one-step synthetic strategy to fabricate a hierarchical polyelemental nanomaterial, which contains ultrasmall precious metal nanoparticles (IrPt, ~5 nm) anchored on spinel-structure transition metal oxide nanoparticles. The polyelemental nanoparticles serve as excellent bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The mass catalytic activity of the polyelemental nanoparticles is 7-times higher than that of Pt in ORR and 28-times that of Ir in OER at the same overpotentials, demonstrating the high activity of the bifunctional electrocatalyst. We attribute this outstanding performance to the controlled multiple elemental composition, mixed chemical states, and large electroactive surface area. The hierarchical nanostructure and polyelemental design of these nanoparticles offers a general and powerful alternative material for catalysis, solar cells, and more.
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- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1631952
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1618337
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-215967-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; electrocatalyst; polyelemental; oxygen electrode
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Wu, Meiling, Cui, Mingjin, Wu, Lianping, Hwang, Sooyeon, Yang, Chunpeng, Xia, Qinqin, Zhong, Geng, Qiao, Haiyu, Gan, Wentao, Wang, Xizheng, Kline, Dylan, Zachariah, Michael R., Su, Dong, Li, Teng, and Hu, Liangbing. Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.202001119.
Wu, Meiling, Cui, Mingjin, Wu, Lianping, Hwang, Sooyeon, Yang, Chunpeng, Xia, Qinqin, Zhong, Geng, Qiao, Haiyu, Gan, Wentao, Wang, Xizheng, Kline, Dylan, Zachariah, Michael R., Su, Dong, Li, Teng, & Hu, Liangbing. Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001119
Wu, Meiling, Cui, Mingjin, Wu, Lianping, Hwang, Sooyeon, Yang, Chunpeng, Xia, Qinqin, Zhong, Geng, Qiao, Haiyu, Gan, Wentao, Wang, Xizheng, Kline, Dylan, Zachariah, Michael R., Su, Dong, Li, Teng, and Hu, Liangbing. Tue .
"Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001119. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1631952.
@article{osti_1631952,
title = {Hierarchical Polyelemental Nanoparticles as Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions},
author = {Wu, Meiling and Cui, Mingjin and Wu, Lianping and Hwang, Sooyeon and Yang, Chunpeng and Xia, Qinqin and Zhong, Geng and Qiao, Haiyu and Gan, Wentao and Wang, Xizheng and Kline, Dylan and Zachariah, Michael R. and Su, Dong and Li, Teng and Hu, Liangbing},
abstractNote = {Efficient electrocatalysts are critical in various clean energy conversion and storage systems. Polyelemental nanomaterials are attractive as multi-functional catalysts due to their wide compositions and synergistic properties. However, controlled synthesis of polyelemental nanomaterials is difficult due to their complex composition. Herein, we present a one-step synthetic strategy to fabricate a hierarchical polyelemental nanomaterial, which contains ultrasmall precious metal nanoparticles (IrPt, ~5 nm) anchored on spinel-structure transition metal oxide nanoparticles. The polyelemental nanoparticles serve as excellent bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The mass catalytic activity of the polyelemental nanoparticles is 7-times higher than that of Pt in ORR and 28-times that of Ir in OER at the same overpotentials, demonstrating the high activity of the bifunctional electrocatalyst. We attribute this outstanding performance to the controlled multiple elemental composition, mixed chemical states, and large electroactive surface area. The hierarchical nanostructure and polyelemental design of these nanoparticles offers a general and powerful alternative material for catalysis, solar cells, and more.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.202001119},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 25,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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