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Pulsed Light Synthesis of High Entropy Nanocatalysts with Enhanced Catalytic Activity and Prolonged Stability for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

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ADVANCED SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 18, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202300426

Keywords

green hydrogen production; high-entropy oxides (HEO); high-entropy oxyhydroxides (HEOH); high-throughput synthesis; intense pulse light; noble metal-free catalysts

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The rapid synthesis of compositionally complex nanostructures is crucial for the discovery of high-throughput functional materials. A photonic flash synthesis method is demonstrated for the rapid formation of high entropy oxide nanoparticles. These nanoparticles exhibit superior catalytic activity and stability, making them promising candidates for various applications in electronics, sensing, and renewable energy conversion.
The ability to synthesize compositionally complex nanostructures rapidly is a key to high-throughput functional materials discovery. In addition to being time-consuming, a majority of conventional materials synthesis processes closely follow thermodynamics equilibria, which limit the discovery of new classes of metastable phases such as high entropy oxides (HEO). Herein, a photonic flash synthesis of HEO nanoparticles at timescales of milliseconds is demonstrated. By leveraging the abrupt heating and cooling cycles induced by a high-power-density xenon pulsed light, mixed transition metal salt precursors undergo rapid chemical transformations. Hence, nanoparticles form within milliseconds with a strong affinity to bind to the carbon substrate. Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity measurements of the synthesized nanoparticles demonstrate two orders of magnitude prolonged stability at high current densities, without noticeable decay in performance, compared to commercial IrO2 catalyst. This superior catalytic activity originates from the synergistic effect of different alloying elements mixed at a high entropic state. It is found that Cr addition influences surface activity the most by promoting higher oxidation states, favoring optimal interaction with OER intermediates. The proposed high-throughput method opens new pathways toward developing next-generation functional materials for various electronics, sensing, and environmental applications, in addition to renewable energy conversion.

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