TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wang, Hao
AU  - Lu, Siyu
PY  - 2023
TI  - Light Inducing the Geometric Conversion of NiO6 to Trigger a Faster Oxygen Evolution Reaction Pathway: The Coupled Oxygen Evolution Mechanism
JO  - Energy & Environmental Materials
SN  - 2575-0348
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
AB  - Developing highly active and robust oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts is still a critical challenge for water electrolyzers and metal–air batteries. Realizing the dynamic evolution of the intermediate and charge transfer during OER and developing a clear OER mechanism is crucial to design high-performance OER catalysts. Recently in Nature, Xue and colleagues revealed a new OER mechanism, coupled oxygen evolution mechanism (COM), which involves a switchable metal and oxygen redox under light irradiation in nickel oxyhydroxide-based materials. This newly developed mechanism requires a reversible geometric conversion between octahedron (NiO6) and square planar (NiO4) to achieve electronic states with both “metal redox” and “oxygen redox” during OER. The asymmetric structure endows NR-NiOOH with a nonoverlapping region between the dz2 orbitals and a1g* bands, which facilitate the geometric conversion and enact the COM pathway. As a result, NR-NiOOH exhibited better OER activity and stability than the traditional NiOOH.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12558
DO  - 10.1002/eem2.12558