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Li Yin1, Yunxuan Ding2, Yingzheng Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Frontier Science Center for Smart Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China.
Abstract:
The abundant, active, and acidic-stable catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are rare to proton exchange membrane-based water electrolysis. Mn-based materials show promise as electrocatalysts for OER in acid electrolytes. However, the relationship between the stability, activity and structure of Mn-based catalysts in acidic environments remains unclear. In this study, phase-pure MnSb2O6 was successfully prepared and investigated as a catalyst for OER in a sulfuric acid solution (pH of 2.0). A comprehensive mechanistic comparison between MnSb2O6 and Mn3O4 revealed that the rate-determining step for OER on MnSb2O6 is the direct formation of MnIV=O from MnII-H2O by the 2H+/2e- process. This process avoids the rearrangement of adjacent MnIII intermediates, leading to outstanding stability and activity.
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