A 3d-printed composite electrode for sustained electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (60) ◽  
pp. 8476-8479
Author(s):  
Si Liu ◽  
Rongji Liu ◽  
Dandan Gao ◽  
Ivan Trentin ◽  
Carsten Streb

3D-printed polymer mesh substrates are converted to composite microstructured electrodes for the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction by stepwise functionalization with a conductive nickel layer and a nickel-iron hydroxide catalyst.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1708-1713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjun He ◽  
Gang Ren ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Dongbo Jia ◽  
Shiyun Li ◽  
...  

The development of earth-abundant and low-cost electrocatalysts with high performance toward the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a key role in water splitting.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daire Tyndall ◽  
Sonia Jaskaniec ◽  
Brian Shortall ◽  
Ahin Roy ◽  
Lee Gannon ◽  
...  

AbstractNickel–iron-layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH) platelets with high morphological regularity and submicrometre lateral dimensions were synthesized using a homogeneous precipitation technique for highly efficient catalysis of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Considering edge sites are the point of activity, efforts were made to control platelet size within the synthesized dispersions. The goal is to controllably isolate and characterize size-reduced NiFe LDH particles. Synthetic approaches for size control of NiFe LDH platelets have not been transferable based on published work with other LDH materials and for that reason, we instead use postsynthetic treatment techniques to improve edge-site density. In the end, size-reduced NiFe LDH/single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) composites allowed to further reduce the OER overpotential to 237 ± 7 mV (<L> = 0.16 ± 0.01 μm, 20 wt% SWCNT), which is one of the best values reported to date. This approach as well improved the long-term activity of the catalyst in operating conditions.


Author(s):  
Michelle P. Browne ◽  
James Dodwell ◽  
Filip Novotny ◽  
Sonia Jaśkaniec ◽  
Paul R. Shearing ◽  
...  

In academic labs, most oxygen evolution reaction studies are carried out in conventional three-electrode cell set-ups; however, this configuration may not accurately represent conditions experienced under practical electrolyser conditions.


Nano Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qikang Wu ◽  
Songrui Wang ◽  
Jiahui Guo ◽  
Xueqing Feng ◽  
Han Li ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Martin Schon ◽  
Oliver Calderon ◽  
Nick Randell ◽  
Santiago Jimenez Villegas ◽  
Katelynn M. Daly ◽  
...  

Amorphous nickel-iron mixed metal oxides have been shown to be extremely efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts with good stability in alkaline reaction conditions. Thus, they offer an economical alternative...


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (48) ◽  
pp. 23915-23922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongtao Meng ◽  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Wei-Hsuan Hung ◽  
Junkai He ◽  
Yi-Sheng Tsai ◽  
...  

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to useful chemicals has been actively pursued for closing the carbon cycle and preventing further deterioration of the environment/climate. Since CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) at a cathode is always paired with the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at an anode, the overall efficiency of electrical energy to chemical fuel conversion must consider the large energy barrier and sluggish kinetics of OER, especially in widely used electrolytes, such as the pH-neutral CO2-saturated 0.5 M KHCO3. OER in such electrolytes mostly relies on noble metal (Ir- and Ru-based) electrocatalysts in the anode. Here, we discover that by anodizing a metallic Ni–Fe composite foam under a harsh condition (in a low-concentration 0.1 M KHCO3 solution at 85 °C under a high-current ∼250 mA/cm2), OER on the NiFe foam is accompanied by anodic etching, and the surface layer evolves into a nickel–iron hydroxide carbonate (NiFe-HC) material composed of porous, poorly crystalline flakes of flower-like NiFe layer-double hydroxide (LDH) intercalated with carbonate anions. The resulting NiFe-HC electrode in CO2-saturated 0.5 M KHCO3 exhibited OER activity superior to IrO2, with an overpotential of 450 and 590 mV to reach 10 and 250 mA/cm2, respectively, and high stability for >120 h without decay. We paired NiFe-HC with a CO2RR catalyst of cobalt phthalocyanine/carbon nanotube (CoPc/CNT) in a CO2 electrolyzer, achieving selective cathodic conversion of CO2 to CO with >97% Faradaic efficiency and simultaneous anodic water oxidation to O2. The device showed a low cell voltage of 2.13 V and high electricity-to-chemical fuel efficiency of 59% at a current density of 10 mA/cm2.


ChemCatChem ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 4416-4421
Author(s):  
Pengkun Wei ◽  
Zewei Hao ◽  
Hongzhi Kang ◽  
Yang ◽  
Donggang Guo ◽  
...  

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