Selenium-doped copper oxide nanoarrays: Robust electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction with ultralow overpotential

Tabassum, Lamya; Tasnim, Habiba; Shubhashish, Shubhashish; Perera, Inosh; Bhosale, Tejas; Li, Meilin; March, Seth; Islam, Mohammad Khairul; Suib, Steven L.

doi:10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101485

Title: Selenium-doped copper oxide nanoarrays: Robust electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction with ultralow overpotential

Journal Article · Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Applied Materials Today

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101485· OSTI ID:1976858

Tabassum, Lamya ^[1]; Tasnim, Habiba ^[1]; Shubhashish, Shubhashish ^[1]; Perera, Inosh ^[1]; Bhosale, Tejas ^[1]; Li, Meilin ^[1]; March, Seth ^[1]; Islam, Mohammad Khairul ^[1]; Suib, Steven L. ^[1]

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the key anodic reaction in electrochemical water splitting. OER is a four-electron process with sluggish reaction kinetics. RuO₂ and IrO₂ are the benchmark catalysts for OER. Thus, finding a low-cost, earth-abundant, and stable electrocatalyst for OER is a big challenge. Here in this work, we report OER over Se-CuO/CF nanoarrays with an ultralow overpotential of 440 mV (at 50 mA/cm² current density). Se-CuO/CF nanoarray has a TOF of 0.05 s^-1 at 300 mV. The catalyst showed consistent OER performance upto1000 cycles run over a period of 10 h. The OER performance of Se-CuO/CF nanoarrays was compared with RuO₂/CF catalyst and the overpotential for RuO₂/CF nanoarray was only 10 mV lower than Se-CuO/CF 50 mA/cm₂ current density. Se-CuO/CF nanoarray showed 50 mV lower overpotential than the state of the art RuO₂/CF catalyst at a current density of 100 mA/cm². The Tafel slope of Se-CuO/CF is 21 mV/decade lower compared to RuO₂/CF suggesting faster reaction kinetics of Se-CuO/CF. The electrochemical surface area and the conductivity were increased upon doping Se into CuO/CF nanoarrays which can be attributed to enhanced OER performance of the Se-CuO/CF nanoarrays.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (CSGB)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-86ER13622

OSTI ID:: 1976858

Journal Information:: Applied Materials Today, Vol. 27, Issue C; ISSN 2352-9407

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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