First-principles study of electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of MnNiO 3 as an alkaline oxygen-evolution photocatalyst
Abstract
We present a first-principles study of MnNiO3, a promising oxygen-evolution photocatalyst. Using density functional theory with the PBE + U functional and the screened hybrid functional of Heyd, Scuseria, and Ernzerhof (HSE), we compute and analyze the ground-state geometry and electronic structure. We find that MnNiO3 is a ferrimagnetic semiconductor with an indirect band gap, consistent with experimental observations. We also predict that MnNiO3 has promising band edge positions relative to the vacuum, with potential to straddle the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) redox potentials in aqueous solution. A detailed analysis of the band structure and density of states provides a clear explanation for why MnNiO3 has appropriate electronic properties for OER. Furthermore, comprehensive calculations of its Pourbaix diagram suggest that MnNiO3 is stable in alkaline solution at potentials relevant for oxygen evolution.
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Energy Technologies Division; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Energy Technologies Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1512169
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ChemComm
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-7345
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Citation Formats
Yu, Jie, Yan, Qimin, Chen, Wei, Jain, Anubhav, Neaton, Jeffrey B., and Persson, Kristin A. First-principles study of electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of MnNiO 3 as an alkaline oxygen-evolution photocatalyst. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1039/c4cc08111k.
Yu, Jie, Yan, Qimin, Chen, Wei, Jain, Anubhav, Neaton, Jeffrey B., & Persson, Kristin A. First-principles study of electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of MnNiO 3 as an alkaline oxygen-evolution photocatalyst. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc08111k
Yu, Jie, Yan, Qimin, Chen, Wei, Jain, Anubhav, Neaton, Jeffrey B., and Persson, Kristin A. Thu .
"First-principles study of electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of MnNiO 3 as an alkaline oxygen-evolution photocatalyst". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc08111k. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1512169.
@article{osti_1512169,
title = {First-principles study of electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of MnNiO 3 as an alkaline oxygen-evolution photocatalyst},
author = {Yu, Jie and Yan, Qimin and Chen, Wei and Jain, Anubhav and Neaton, Jeffrey B. and Persson, Kristin A.},
abstractNote = {We present a first-principles study of MnNiO3, a promising oxygen-evolution photocatalyst. Using density functional theory with the PBE + U functional and the screened hybrid functional of Heyd, Scuseria, and Ernzerhof (HSE), we compute and analyze the ground-state geometry and electronic structure. We find that MnNiO3 is a ferrimagnetic semiconductor with an indirect band gap, consistent with experimental observations. We also predict that MnNiO3 has promising band edge positions relative to the vacuum, with potential to straddle the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) redox potentials in aqueous solution. A detailed analysis of the band structure and density of states provides a clear explanation for why MnNiO3 has appropriate electronic properties for OER. Furthermore, comprehensive calculations of its Pourbaix diagram suggest that MnNiO3 is stable in alkaline solution at potentials relevant for oxygen evolution.},
doi = {10.1039/c4cc08111k},
journal = {ChemComm},
number = 14,
volume = 51,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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