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Rational construction of high-active Co3O4 electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

Show Author's Information Tianyun Zhang1,§,  Shichao Zhao2,§,  Chuanming Zhu1,  Jing Shi3,  Chao Su1,  Jiawen Yang1,  Meng Wang1,  Jun Li1,  Junhui Li1,  Pingle Liu1( ),  Conghui Wang1( )
College of Chemical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China
Analytical Instrumentation center, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China

§ Tianyun Zhang and Shichao Zhao contributed equally to this work.

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Rational construction of high-efficiency electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

(OER) is critical for renewable-energy technologies, but it is highly challenging to rationally regulate their surface structures to improve the OER performance. Herein, we proposed a “model-etching” strategy to investigate chemical etching of Co3O4. The cubic Co3O4 nanocrystals enclosed by well-defined facets are synthesized as model crystals, whose uniform surface structures allow us to study the etching mechanism at atomic level. Etching kinetics study together with DFT calculations discloses that {111} facets, the highly active facets for OER, serve as etch-stop facets in the etching reaction and H2SO4 molecules play a special role in creating surface Co2+, the active center of OER. These results direct us to rationally optimize the surface structures of Co3O4 to develop highly active OER electrocatalysts. The favorable performance of overpotential (η) and the Tafel slope decrease even to 268 mV@10 mA·cm−2 and 74 mV·dec−1, respectively. In general, our study shows that chemical etching of model crystals could help us rationally construct high-efficiency electrocatalysts.


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Rational construction of high-active Co3O4 electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

Show Author's information Tianyun Zhang1,§, Shichao Zhao2,§, Chuanming Zhu1, Jing Shi3, Chao Su1, Jiawen Yang1, Meng Wang1, Jun Li1, Junhui Li1, Pingle Liu1( ), Conghui Wang1( )
College of Chemical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China
Analytical Instrumentation center, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China

§ Tianyun Zhang and Shichao Zhao contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Rational construction of high-efficiency electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

(OER) is critical for renewable-energy technologies, but it is highly challenging to rationally regulate their surface structures to improve the OER performance. Herein, we proposed a “model-etching” strategy to investigate chemical etching of Co3O4. The cubic Co3O4 nanocrystals enclosed by well-defined facets are synthesized as model crystals, whose uniform surface structures allow us to study the etching mechanism at atomic level. Etching kinetics study together with DFT calculations discloses that {111} facets, the highly active facets for OER, serve as etch-stop facets in the etching reaction and H2SO4 molecules play a special role in creating surface Co2+, the active center of OER. These results direct us to rationally optimize the surface structures of Co3O4 to develop highly active OER electrocatalysts. The favorable performance of overpotential (η) and the Tafel slope decrease even to 268 mV@10 mA·cm−2 and 74 mV·dec−1, respectively. In general, our study shows that chemical etching of model crystals could help us rationally construct high-efficiency electrocatalysts.

Keywords: cobalt oxide, oxygen evolution reaction, surface structure, chemical etching, high active facets

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Received: 29 May 2022
Revised: 25 July 2022
Accepted: 08 August 2022
Published: 20 September 2022
Issue date: January 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21802114 and 21802115), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M662794), Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Nos. 2017XK2048, 2018JJ3501, and 2019JJ50601), and Project of Education Department of Hunan Province (No. 21B0141).

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