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Enhanced oxygen evolution over dual corner-shared cobalt tetrahedra

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  • Yubo Chen

    (Nanyang Technological University
    The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore
    Nanyang Technological University
    Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University)

  • Joon Kyo Seo

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego
    Korea Institute of Energy Research)

  • Yuanmiao Sun

    (Nanyang Technological University)

  • Thomas A. Wynn

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego)

  • Marco Olguin

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego)

  • Minghao Zhang

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego)

  • Jingxian Wang

    (Nanyang Technological University)

  • Shibo Xi

    (Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR)

  • Yonghua Du

    (Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR)

  • Kaidi Yuan

    (National University of Singapore)

  • Wei Chen

    (National University of Singapore)

  • Adrian C. Fisher

    (The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore
    University of Cambridge)

  • Maoyu Wang

    (Oregon State University)

  • Zhenxing Feng

    (Oregon State University)

  • Jose Gracia

    (MagnetoCat SL, General Polavieja 9 3I)

  • Li Huang

    (Chinese Academy of Science)

  • Shixuan Du

    (Chinese Academy of Science)

  • Hong-Jun Gao

    (Chinese Academy of Science)

  • Ying Shirley Meng

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego
    University of Chicago)

  • Zhichuan J. Xu

    (Nanyang Technological University
    The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore
    Nanyang Technological University
    Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University)

Abstract

Developing efficient catalysts is of paramount importance to oxygen evolution, a sluggish anodic reaction that provides essential electrons and protons for various electrochemical processes, such as hydrogen generation. Here, we report that the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) can be efficiently catalyzed by cobalt tetrahedra, which are stabilized over the surface of a Swedenborgite-type YBCo4O7 material. We reveal that the surface of YBaCo4O7 possesses strong resilience towards structural amorphization during OER, which originates from its distinctive structural evolution toward electrochemical oxidation. The bulk of YBaCo4O7 composes of corner-sharing only CoO4 tetrahedra, which can flexibly alter their positions to accommodate the insertion of interstitial oxygen ions and mediate the stress during the electrochemical oxidation. The density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the OER is efficiently catalyzed by a binuclear active site of dual corner-shared cobalt tetrahedra, which have a coordination number switching between 3 and 4 during the reaction. We expect that the reported active structural motif of dual corner-shared cobalt tetrahedra in this study could enable further development of compounds for catalyzing the OER.

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  • Yubo Chen & Joon Kyo Seo & Yuanmiao Sun & Thomas A. Wynn & Marco Olguin & Minghao Zhang & Jingxian Wang & Shibo Xi & Yonghua Du & Kaidi Yuan & Wei Chen & Adrian C. Fisher & Maoyu Wang & Zhenxing Feng , 2022. "Enhanced oxygen evolution over dual corner-shared cobalt tetrahedra," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-33000-w
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33000-w
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