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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 145, Issue 14, Pages 7829-7836Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12431
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Acidic water electrolysis is used to produce hydrogen for chemical and fuel applications. Doping Ba cations into a Co3O4 framework promotes the oxide path mechanism and improves activity in acidic electrolytes, leading to more efficient water oxidation.
Acidic water electrolysis enables the production of hydrogen for use as a chemical and as a fuel. The acidic environment hinders water electrolysis on non-noble catalysts, a result of the sluggish kinetics associated with the adsorbate evolution mechanism, reliant as it is on four concerted proton -electron transfer steps. Enabling a faster mechanism with non -noble catalysts will help to further advance acidic water electrolysis. Here, we report evidence that doping Ba cations into a Co3O4 framework to form Co3-xBaxO4 promotes the oxide path mechanism and simultaneously improves activity in acidic electrolytes. Co3-xBaxO4 catalysts reported herein exhibit an overpotential of 278 mV at 10 mA/cm2 in 0.5 M H2SO4 electrolyte and are stable over 110 h of continuous water oxidation operation. We find that the incorporation of Ba cations shortens the Co-Co distance and promotes OH adsorption, findings we link to improved water oxidation in acidic electrolyte.
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