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FeOOH have received considerable attention due to their natural abundance and cost-effectiveness. Despite the significant progress achieved, the one-step synthesis of integrated FeOOH is still a major challenge. Meanwhile, the current research on FeOOH catalyst still suffers from the unclear mechanism of controlling morphology. Here, density functional theory (DFT) calculations and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) demonstrated the strong electron-capturing and hydrogen absorption ability of Co in FeOOH, which further promotes the formation and stabilization of FeOOH. We used a one-step electrodeposition method to synthesize Co introduced FeOOH integrated electrocatalyst and propose to introduce ions with different valence states to regulate the morphology of FeOOH by precise modulation of electric double layer (EDL) composition and thickness. The prepared Co-FeOOH-K+ has a larger electrochemically active surface area (ECSA) (325 cm2) and turnover frequency (TOF) value (0.75 s−1). In the electrochemical experiments of an alkaline anion exchange membrane electrolyzer, Co-FeOOH-K+ shows better oxygen evolution performance than commercial RuO2 under industrial production conditions and has good industrial application prospects.


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Regulate electric double layer for one-step synthesize and modulate the morphology of (oxy)hydroxides

Show Author's information Jiaxin Liu1Yue Shi1Yanli Gu1Zheng Lv1Liang Zhao1Yu Yang1Tianrong Zhan1Jianping Lai1( )Lei Wang1,2( )
State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
Shandong Engineering Research Center for Marine Environment Corrosion and Safety Protection, College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China

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FeOOH have received considerable attention due to their natural abundance and cost-effectiveness. Despite the significant progress achieved, the one-step synthesis of integrated FeOOH is still a major challenge. Meanwhile, the current research on FeOOH catalyst still suffers from the unclear mechanism of controlling morphology. Here, density functional theory (DFT) calculations and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) demonstrated the strong electron-capturing and hydrogen absorption ability of Co in FeOOH, which further promotes the formation and stabilization of FeOOH. We used a one-step electrodeposition method to synthesize Co introduced FeOOH integrated electrocatalyst and propose to introduce ions with different valence states to regulate the morphology of FeOOH by precise modulation of electric double layer (EDL) composition and thickness. The prepared Co-FeOOH-K+ has a larger electrochemically active surface area (ECSA) (325 cm2) and turnover frequency (TOF) value (0.75 s−1). In the electrochemical experiments of an alkaline anion exchange membrane electrolyzer, Co-FeOOH-K+ shows better oxygen evolution performance than commercial RuO2 under industrial production conditions and has good industrial application prospects.

Keywords: electrodeposition, oxygen evolution reaction (OER), electric double layer (EDL), morphology regulation, integrated (oxy)hydroxides

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Received: 05 August 2023
Revised: 25 September 2023
Accepted: 11 October 2023
Published: 21 November 2023
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22001143 and 52072197), the Youth Innovation and Technology Foundation of Shandong Higher Education Institutions, China (No. 2019KJC004), the Outstanding Youth Foundation of Shandong Province, China (No. ZR2019JQ14), the Taishan Scholar Young Talent Program (Nos. tsqn201909114 and tsqn201909123), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2020YQ34), the Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project (No. 2019JZZY020405), and the Major Basic Research Program of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant No. ZR2020ZD09.

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