Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite

© 2017 American Chemical Society. The rational design of highly active and durable electrocatalysts for overall water splitting is a formidable challenge. In this work, a double perovskite oxide, i.e., NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 , is proposed as a bifunctional electrode material for water electrolysis. Layered...

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Main Authors: Wang, J., Gao, Y., Chen, D., Liu, J., Zhang, Z., Shao, Zongping, Ciucci, F.
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Chemical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65636
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author Wang, J.
Gao, Y.
Chen, D.
Liu, J.
Zhang, Z.
Shao, Zongping
Ciucci, F.
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Gao, Y.
Chen, D.
Liu, J.
Zhang, Z.
Shao, Zongping
Ciucci, F.
author_sort Wang, J.
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description © 2017 American Chemical Society. The rational design of highly active and durable electrocatalysts for overall water splitting is a formidable challenge. In this work, a double perovskite oxide, i.e., NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 , is proposed as a bifunctional electrode material for water electrolysis. Layered NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 demonstrates significant improvement in catalyzing oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER, respectively), in contrast to other related materials, including disordered Nd 0.5 Ba 0.5 MnO 3-d as well as NdBaMn 2 O 5.5-d and NdBaMn 2 O 5.5+d (d < 0.5). Importantly, NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 has an OER intrinsic activity (~24 times) and a mass activity (~2.5 times) much higher than those of the benchmark RuO 2 at 1.7 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode. In addition, NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 achieves a better overall water splitting activity at large potentials ( > 1.75 V) and catalytic durability in comparison to those of Pt/C-RuO 2 , making it a promising candidate electrode material for water electrolyzers. The substantially enhanced performance is attributed to the approximately half-filled e g orbit occupancy, optimized O p-band center location, and distorted structure. Interestingly, for the investigated perovskite oxides, OER and HER activity seem to be correlated; i.e., the material achieving a higher OER activity is also more active in catalyzing HER.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-656362018-02-19T08:06:42Z Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite Wang, J. Gao, Y. Chen, D. Liu, J. Zhang, Z. Shao, Zongping Ciucci, F. © 2017 American Chemical Society. The rational design of highly active and durable electrocatalysts for overall water splitting is a formidable challenge. In this work, a double perovskite oxide, i.e., NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 , is proposed as a bifunctional electrode material for water electrolysis. Layered NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 demonstrates significant improvement in catalyzing oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER, respectively), in contrast to other related materials, including disordered Nd 0.5 Ba 0.5 MnO 3-d as well as NdBaMn 2 O 5.5-d and NdBaMn 2 O 5.5+d (d < 0.5). Importantly, NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 has an OER intrinsic activity (~24 times) and a mass activity (~2.5 times) much higher than those of the benchmark RuO 2 at 1.7 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode. In addition, NdBaMn 2 O 5.5 achieves a better overall water splitting activity at large potentials ( > 1.75 V) and catalytic durability in comparison to those of Pt/C-RuO 2 , making it a promising candidate electrode material for water electrolyzers. The substantially enhanced performance is attributed to the approximately half-filled e g orbit occupancy, optimized O p-band center location, and distorted structure. Interestingly, for the investigated perovskite oxides, OER and HER activity seem to be correlated; i.e., the material achieving a higher OER activity is also more active in catalyzing HER. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65636 10.1021/acscatal.7b02650 American Chemical Society restricted
spellingShingle Wang, J.
Gao, Y.
Chen, D.
Liu, J.
Zhang, Z.
Shao, Zongping
Ciucci, F.
Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite
title Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite
title_full Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite
title_fullStr Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite
title_full_unstemmed Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite
title_short Water Splitting with an Enhanced Bifunctional Double Perovskite
title_sort water splitting with an enhanced bifunctional double perovskite
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65636