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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 91, Issue 16, Pages 10353-10356Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01317
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The future significance of energy conversion has stimulated intense investigation of various electrocatalytic materials. Hence electrocatalysts have become the subject of electrochemical characterization on a daily basis. In certain cases of interest, when measuring electrochemical reactions beyond the onset potentials, however, appropriateness of existing electroanalytical methods may be questioned and alternative approaches need to be developed. The present study highlights some shortcomings in the electrochemical investigation of gas evolving reactions. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is selected as a case example with a specific focus on the electrochemical stability of a nanoparticulate iridium catalyst. When conventional electrochemical methods, such as thin film rotating disc electrodes are employed to study the materials' stability, the intrinsic degradation is masked by oxygen bubbles, which are inherently being formed during the reaction, especially when high current densities are used. In this Letter, we present a solution to this issue, the so-called floating electrode arrangement. Its elegant usage enables fast and reliable electrochemical characterization of oxygen evolution electrocatalysts.
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