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Yakang Li1, Jiaxin Guo1, Ruguang Wang1
1Key Laboratory for Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of New-Energy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
Abstract:
The development of water splitting technology in alkaline medium requires the exploration of electrocatalysts superior to Pt/C to boost the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Ruthenium oxides with strong water dissociation ability are promising candidates; however, the lack of hydrogen combination sites immensely limits their performance. Herein, we reported a unique RuO catalyst with metallic Ru on its surface through a simple cation exchange method. We demonstrated that the formation of metallic Ru on RuO greatly enhances the interaction between the catalyst and adsorbed hydrogen (*H), resulting in extremely high HER activity in alkaline media. Moreover, we proposed the potential of zero charge (Epzc) as a descriptor of ruthenium-base catalysts for alkaline HER for the first time and revealed that the existence of metallic Ru optimizes the Epzc of RuO toward the hydrogen region. As a result, the designed RuO catalyst achieves an overpotential of only 18 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm-2. Furthermore, RuO requires 1.80 V to reach 800 mA cm-2 in the anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer, outperforming the benchmark Pt/C.
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