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Tensile straining of iridium sites in manganese oxides for proton-exchange membrane water electrolysers
Hui Su1, Chenyu Yang2, Meihuan Liu3
1Key Laboratory of Light Energy Conversion Materials of Hunan Province College, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, China. suhui@hunnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Although the acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a crucial role in proton-exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) devices, challenges remain owing to the lack of efficient and acid-stable electrocatalysts. Herein, we present a low-iridium electrocatalyst in which tensile-strained iridium atoms are localized at manganese-oxide surface cation sites (TS-Ir/MnO2) for high and sustainable OER activity. In situ synchrotron characterizations reveal that the TS-Ir/MnO2 can trigger a continuous localized lattice oxygen-mediated (L-LOM) mechanism. In particular, the L-LOM process could substantially boost the adsorption and transformation of H2O molecules over the oxygen vacancies around the tensile-strained Ir sites and prevent further loss of lattice oxygen atoms in the inner MnO2 bulk to optimize the structural integrity of the catalyst. Importantly, the resultant PEMWE device fabricated using TS-Ir/MnO2 delivers a current density of 500 mA cm-2 and operates stably for 200 h.
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