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Mei Zhang1, Ming-Tian Zhang, Cheng Hou
1MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275 (China).
Abstract:
The development of an earth-abundant, first-row water oxidation catalyst that operates at neutral pH and low overpotential remains a fundamental chemical challenge. Herein, we report the first nickel-based robust homogeneous water oxidation catalyst, which can electrocatalyze water oxidation at neutral pH and low overpotential in phosphate buffer. The results of DFT calculations verify that the O-O bond formation in catalytic water oxidation prefers a HO-OH coupling mechanism from a cis-isomer of the catalyst.
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