Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 58, Issue 26, Pages 8917-8921Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902884
Keywords
carbon materials; edge sites; isotope effect; OER
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- Max Planck society
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The abundance of available surface chemical information and edge structures of carbon materials have attracted tremendous interest in catalysis. For the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the edge effects of carbon materials have rarely been studied in detail because of the complexity of various coexisting edge configurations and the controversy between carbon corrosion and carbon catalysis. Herein, the exact roles of common carbon active edge sites in the OER were interrogated using polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with designated configurations (zigzag and armchair) as model probe molecules, with a focus on structure-function relationships. Zigzag configurations of PAHs showed high activity for the OER while also showing a good stability at a reasonable potential. They show a TOF value of 0.276s(-1) in 0.1m KOH. The catalytic activity of carbon edge sites was further effectively regulated by extending the pi conjugation structure at a molecular level.
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