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Highly Boosted Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity by Tuning the Underwater Wetting State of the Superhydrophobic
Pengwei Wang1, Toru Hayashi2, Qing'an Meng1
1Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, No. 37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian district, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
Abstract:
By rationally designing superhydrophobic electrodes with different underwater wetting states, it is revealed that only the underwater Wenzel-Cassie coexistent state shows the clearly enhanced ability in catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction, a typical underwater gas-consuming reaction at electrode. It is proposed that the maximizing and stabilizing the liquid/gas/solid triphase interface, endowed by the underwater Wenzel-Cassie coexistent state, plays a rather crucial role.

