Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30670-4
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [92163117, 52172058, 51972006, 52072389]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [19ZR1479500, 19ZR1465100, 20520760900]
- State Key Laboratory of ASIC System [2020KF002]
- Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader [20XD1424300]
- Discovery Program by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC) [DG RGPIN-2020-06675]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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To achieve a zero-carbon economy, advanced anode catalysts are needed for hydrogen production and biomass upgrading using renewable energy. This study focuses on the electrochemical oxidation of nickel-metalloids to create oxyanion-coordinated amorphous nickel oxyhydroxides. The results show that substitution with phosphorus enhances the electrooxidation activity of methanol.
To achieve zero-carbon economy, advanced anode catalysts are desirable for hydrogen production and biomass upgrading powered by renewable energy. Ni-based non-precious electrocatalysts are considered as potential candidates because of intrinsic redox attributes, but in-depth understanding and rational design of Ni site coordination still remain challenging. Here, we perform anodic electrochemical oxidation of Ni-metalloids (NiPx, NiSx, and NiSex) to in-situ construct different oxyanion-coordinated amorphous nickel oxyhydroxides (NiOOH-TOx), among which NiOOH-POx shows optimal local coordination environment and boosts electrocatalytic activity of Ni sites towards selective oxidation of methanol to formate. Experiments and theoretical results demonstrate that NiOOH-POx possesses improved adsorption of OH* and methanol, and favors the formation of CH3O* intermediates. The coordinated phosphate oxyanions effectively tailor the d band center of Ni sites and increases Ni-O covalency, promoting the catalytic activity. This study provides additional insights into modulation of active-center coordination environment via oxyanions for organic molecules transformation. Coordination environments around metal sites are important in electrocatalysis. Here, Ni metalloid oxidation produces oxyanion doped amorphous Ni-oxyhydroxides where substitution with phosphorus is found to boost methanol electrooxidation activity.
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