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Sheng Liang1, Fan Yu1, Ziling Wang1
1School of Energy, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Safe Energy Storage Technology, Hefei University, Hefei, 230601, China.
Abstract:
Electrochemical reconstruction of precatalysts into active (oxy)hydroxides is essential to the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), yet achieving phase transformation with cation-anion co-modulation of the electronic structure remains challenging. Thus, we report S-Fe-NiMoO4 nanorod arrays as an OER precatalyst, in which the partial leaching of MoO42- and S species triggers structural destabilization and rapid reconstruction into the S-Mo/Fe-NiOOH active phase. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that the weakened intermediate adsorption in the *O → *OOH step on S-Mo/Fe-NiOOH reduces the energy barrier. The S-Fe-NiMoO4 precatalyst delivers outstanding OER activity with mere 238 mV at 100 mA cm-2. A low cell voltage of 1.52 V is required to drive 10 mA cm-2 in an asymmetric two-electrode alkaline electrolyzer of the S-Fe-NiMoO4||Fe-NiMoO4 couple, with sustained stability over 120 h and near-unity Faradaic efficiency. This work establishes a dual-doping dynamic phase engineering strategy for designing durable and high-performance OER electrocatalysts toward industrial-scale water electrolysis.
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