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Ruthenium oxide catalysts offer a promising alternative for low-carbon hydrogen production via proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE). Optimizing their performance requires managing proton transfer, water organization, and metal-oxygen redox for enhanced activity and durability.

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  • Electrochemistry and Catalysis
  • Materials Science for Energy Applications
  • Sustainable Hydrogen Production

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  • Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) is crucial for low-carbon hydrogen, but anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts face challenges.
  • Noble-metal catalysts, like iridium, are scarce and unstable under harsh PEMWE conditions.
  • Ruthenium oxides (RuO_x) show high intrinsic activity but suffer from an activity-durability trade-off.

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  • To review and understand recent advancements in Ru-based acidic OER catalysts.
  • To propose a mechanism-guided framework for improving catalyst performance.
  • To link catalyst design with microenvironmental factors and reaction pathways.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review focusing on mechanism-guided design principles for Ru-based OER catalysts.
  • Analysis of the interplay between proton management, water organization, and metal-oxygen redox.
  • Discussion of theoretical and operando methods for catalyst evaluation and scale-up.

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  • Acidic PEM OER performance is dictated by catalyst-ionomer-water microenvironment and Ru-O redox dynamics, not just adsorption energetics.
  • Key factors influencing performance include proton management, interfacial water organization, redox buffering, oxygen balance, and O-O coupling.
  • Catalyst design levers can modulate competition between different OER pathways (adsorbate evolution, lattice-oxygen mediated, dual-site coupling).

Conclusions:

  • A mechanism-aware framework is essential for advancing Ru-based acidic OER catalysts.
  • Understanding the coupled evolution of the catalyst microenvironment and redox manifold is key to overcoming the activity-durability trade-off.
  • Theory and operando studies are vital for translating half-cell findings to membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) and establishing durability benchmarks.