A Template Editing Strategy to Create Interlayer-Confined Active Species for Efficient and Durable Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

Liu, Depei; Yan, Yuandong; Li, Hu; Liu, Duanduan; Yang, Yandong; Li, Taozhu; Du, Yu; Yan, Shicheng et al. · Adv Mater · 2023

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Substantial overpotentials and insufficient and unstable active sites of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts limit their efficiency and stability in OER-related energy conversion and storage technologies. Here, a template editing strategy is proposed to graft highly active catalytic species onto highly conductive rigid frameworks to tackle this challenge. As a successful attempt, two types of NiO<sub>6</sub> units of layered Ni BDC (BDC stands for 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid) metal organic frameworks are selectively edited by chemical etching-assisted electroxidation to create layered γ-NiOOH with intercalated Ni-O species. In such an interlayer-confined intercalated architecture, the large interlayer space with high ion permeability offers an ideal reaction region to sufficiently expose the OER active sites comprising high-density intercalated Ni-O species, which also suppresses the undesirable γ to β phase transformation, thus exhibiting efficient and durable OER activity. As a result, water oxidation can occur at an extremely low overpotential of 130 mV and affords 1000 h stability at 100 mA cm<sup>-2</sup> . The strategy conceptually shows the possibility of achieving stable homogeneous-like catalysis in heterogeneous catalysis.