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Corrosion engineering towards efficient oxygen evolution electrodes with stable catalytic activity for over 6000 hours

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Liu, Yipu, Liang, Xiao, Gu, Lin, Zhang, Yu, Li, Guo-Dong, Zou, Xiaoxin, Chen, Jie-Sheng·2018·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-05019-5PMC PMC6031686
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Although a number of nonprecious materials can exhibit catalytic activity approaching (sometimes even outperforming) that of iridium oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction, their catalytic lifetimes rarely exceed more than several hundred hours under operating conditions. Here we develop an energy-efficient, cost-effective, scaled-up corrosion engineering method for transforming inexpensive iron substrates (e.g., iron plate and iron foam) into highly active and ultrastable electrodes for oxygen evolution reaction. This synthetic method is achieved via a desired corrosion reaction of iron substrates with oxygen in aqueous solutions containing divalent cations (e.g., nickel) at ambient temperature. This process results in the growth on iron substrates of thin film nanosheet arrays that consist of iron-containing layered double hydroxides, instead of rust. This inexpensive and simple manufacturing technique affords iron-substrate-derived electrodes possessing excellent catalytic activities and activity retention for over 6000 hours at 1000 mA cm-2 current densities.

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Authors
Liu, Y., Liang, X., Gu, L., Zhang, Y., Li, G.-D., Zou, X., & Chen, J.-S.
Affiliations
  • Jilin University (CN)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Beihang University (CN)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
Corresponding author
Zou, Xiaoxin
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Venue
Nature Communications
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-07-04
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
2609-2609
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-018-05019-5
PMC
PMC6031686
OpenAlex
W2811423998
Cited by
564
References
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  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
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Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (217710079, 21771079)
  • People's Government of Jilin Province (20170101141JC)
  • Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (161011)
  • Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (161011)
  • Program for Jilin University Science and Technology Innovative Research Team
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Keywords
oxygen evolution reaction, electrocatalysis, corrosion engineering, iron-based electrocatalysts, layered double hydroxides, iron foam, catalyst stability, non-noble metal catalysts, scalable electrode fabrication

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