Operando investigation of Au-MnOx thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction

Frydendal, Rasmus; Seitz, Linsey C.; Sokaras, Dimosthenis; Weng, Tsu -Chien; Nordlund, Dennis; Chorkendorff, Ib; Stephens, Ifan E. L.; Jaramillo, Thomas F.

doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.085

Title: Operando investigation of Au-MnO_x thin films with improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction

Journal Article · Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Electrochimica Acta

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.01.085· OSTI ID:1349284

Frydendal, Rasmus ^[1]; Seitz, Linsey C. ^[2]; Sokaras, Dimosthenis ^[3]; Weng, Tsu -Chien ^[3]; Nordlund, Dennis ^[3]; Chorkendorff, Ib ^[1]; Stephens, Ifan E. L. ^[1]; Jaramillo, Thomas F. ^[4]

Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

The electrochemical splitting of water holds great potential as a method for producing clean fuels by storing electricity from intermittent energy sources. The efficiency of such a process would be greatly facilitated by incorporating more active catalysts based on abundant materials for the oxygen evolution reaction. Manganese oxides are promising as catalysts for this reaction. Recent reports show that their activity can be drastically enhanced when modified with gold. Herein, we investigate highly active mixed Au-MnO_x thin films for the oxygen evolution reaction, which exhibit more than five times improvement over pure MnO_x. These films are characterized with operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, which reveal that Mn assumes a higher oxidation state under reaction conditions when Au is present. As a result, the magnitude of the enhancement is correlated to the size of the Au domains, where larger domains are the more beneficial.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1349284

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1413349

Journal Information:: Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 230, Issue C; ISSN 0013-4686

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