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Nitrogen loss and oxygen evolution reaction activity of perovskite oxynitrides
Perovskite oxynitride photocatalysts were reported by experiment to evolve
small amounts of N due to the self-oxidation of nitrogen ions by
photo-generated holes. The N evolution rate was observed to decrease with
increasing reaction time and was found to be correlated with a decrease in
O evolution (OER) activity, the origin of this latter effect however being
unknown. Here we investigate, by means of density functional theory
calculation, anion vacancies at the TaON-terminated (001) surface of the
perovskite oxynitride SrTaON. We find an energetic preference for oxygen
and nitrogen vacancies to reside at the surface, where they are spontaneously
healed by *O and *OH adsorbates under OER conditions. For nitrogen vacancies,
this self-healing leads to an altered stoichiometry TaON
that is accompanied by electron doping. Substitution of N by O at the surface
also leads to tensile strain, which confines the excess charge to the very
surface layer, affecting the binding energy of reaction intermediates and
significantly increasing the OER overpotential. This peculiar change in
electronic structure thus provides an atomic scale explanation for the
experimentally observed drop in OER activity of perovskite oxynitrides.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figure
Synthesis, characterisation and evaluation of IrO2 based binary metal oxide electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction
IrO2, IrxRu1-xO2, IrxSnx-1O2 and IrxTax-1O2 (1 ≥ x ≥ 0.7) were synthesized, characterised and evaluated as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in solid polymer electrolyte electrolysers. The electrocatalysts were synthesised by adapting the Adams fusion method. The physical properties of the electrocatalysts were characterised by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. Electrochemical activity of the electrocatalysts toward the oxygen evolution reaction was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. X-ray diffraction revealed no phase separation when RuO2 or SnO2 was introduced into the IrO2 lattice suggesting that solid solutions were formed. Transmission electron microscope analysis revealed nanosize particles for all synthesised metal oxides. Crystallinity increased with the addition of RuO2 and SnO2 while a suppression of crystal growth was observed with the addition of Ta2O5 to IrO2. Chronoamperometry revealed that the addition of all the secondary metal oxides to IrO2 resulted in improved catalytic performance. Ir0.7Ru0.3O2 was identified as the most promising electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction.
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The layered oxide Na0.67CoO2 with Na+ occupying trigonal prismatic sites between CoO2 layers exhibits a remarkably high room temperature oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity in alkaline solution. The high activity is attributed to an unusually short O-O separation that favors formation of peroxide ions by O--O- interactions followed by O2 evolution in preference to the conventional route through surface O-OH- species. The dependence of the onset potential on the pH of the alkaline solution was found to be consistent with the loss of H+ ions from the surface oxygen to provide surface O- that may either be attacked by solution OH- or react with another O-; a short O-O separation favors the latter route. The role of a strong hybridization of the O-2p and low-spin CoIII/CoIV π-bonding d states is also important; the OER on other CoIII/CoIV oxides is compared with that on Na0.67CoO2 as well as that on IrO2
Correction: High intrinsic activity of the oxygen evolution reaction in low-cost NiO nanowall electrocatalysts
Correction for 'High intrinsic activity of the oxygen evolution reaction in low-cost NiO nanowall electrocatalysts' by Salvatore Cosentino et al., Mater. Adv., 2020, DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00467g
Identification of the byproducts of the oxygen evolution reaction on rutile-type oxides under dynamic conditions
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