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Heterogeneous Removal of Water-Soluble Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst from Aqueous Media Via Host-Guest Interaction
Published on: August 23, 2018
Nonmetal-Metal Strategy to Reduce Ru-O Covalency while Promoting Local Reactive Water Concentration for Efficient
Mingming Wang1, Xinyi Li1, Zhongfeng Wang1
1Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of MOE, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
Abstract:
Affordable, active, and durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts are crucial for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE). The low-cost RuO2, relative to IrO2, is attractive for acidic OER while suffering from durability. To resolve this activity-stability dilemma of RuO2, we propose a universal nonmetal-metal strategy to reduce Ru-O covalency while promoting local reactive water concentration for efficient acidic OER. The nonmetal-metal dual-dopant via complementary regulation of O 2p and Ru 4d bands weakens the Ru-O covalency, constraining the lattice oxygen participation and Ru dissolution. Operando evidence further unravels that the best-performing B-Cr-RuO2, via surface OH, increases the local reactive water concentration and the connectivity of H-bond networks, enabling an order of magnitude enhancement in intrinsic activity without sacrificing durability over RuO2. Consequently, the B-Cr-RuO2-incorporated PEMWE delivers attractive performance for practical applications, requiring a voltage of only 1.54 V@1.0 A cm-2 and maintaining a durable operation at industrial current densities.
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