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Title: Template-stabilized oxidic nickel oxygen evolution catalysts

Abstract

Significance Metal-oxide catalysts that do not rely on the critical metals corrode immediately in nonbasic solutions. The development of self-healing offers a design principle to avert corrosion for typical metal oxides in neutral and near-neutral solutions. However, the stabilization of metal-oxide oxygen evolution catalysts (OECs) in acid remains to be a challenge that requires new design principles and strategies. We show here that high activity from OECs may be achieved in acid by embedding catalytic metal-oxide active sites within an acid-stable oxide framework. Specifically, we show that oxidic Ni OECs may be stabilized for extended periods of OER by embedding Ni in the acid-stable oxide framework of PbO 2 polymorphs.

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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (CSGB)
OSTI Identifier:
1637574
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1638734; OSTI ID: 1775492; OSTI ID: 1992631
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0017619; AC02-06CH11357
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Published Article
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 117 Journal Issue: 28; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
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National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; water-splitting catalysis; renewable energy; solar to fuels; electrocatalysis; acid-stable templating; 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Li, Nancy, Keane, Thomas P., Veroneau, Samuel S., Hadt, Ryan G., Hayes, Dugan, Chen, Lin X., and Nocera, Daniel G. Template-stabilized oxidic nickel oxygen evolution catalysts. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.2001529117.
Li, Nancy, Keane, Thomas P., Veroneau, Samuel S., Hadt, Ryan G., Hayes, Dugan, Chen, Lin X., & Nocera, Daniel G. Template-stabilized oxidic nickel oxygen evolution catalysts. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001529117
Li, Nancy, Keane, Thomas P., Veroneau, Samuel S., Hadt, Ryan G., Hayes, Dugan, Chen, Lin X., and Nocera, Daniel G. Tue . "Template-stabilized oxidic nickel oxygen evolution catalysts". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001529117.
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title = {Template-stabilized oxidic nickel oxygen evolution catalysts},
author = {Li, Nancy and Keane, Thomas P. and Veroneau, Samuel S. and Hadt, Ryan G. and Hayes, Dugan and Chen, Lin X. and Nocera, Daniel G.},
abstractNote = {Significance Metal-oxide catalysts that do not rely on the critical metals corrode immediately in nonbasic solutions. The development of self-healing offers a design principle to avert corrosion for typical metal oxides in neutral and near-neutral solutions. However, the stabilization of metal-oxide oxygen evolution catalysts (OECs) in acid remains to be a challenge that requires new design principles and strategies. We show here that high activity from OECs may be achieved in acid by embedding catalytic metal-oxide active sites within an acid-stable oxide framework. Specifically, we show that oxidic Ni OECs may be stabilized for extended periods of OER by embedding Ni in the acid-stable oxide framework of PbO 2 polymorphs.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2001529117},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 28,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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