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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 21, Issue 34, Pages 18486-18494Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00157c
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- RIKEN Junior Research Associate (JRA) Program
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We report a theoretical study on iron oxyhydroxide (FeOOH). The FeOOH surface is expected to act as an efficient electrochemical catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), because it is based on iron, an element of the fourth highest Clarke number. Experimentally, the OER activity of beta-FeOOH is known to be higher than that of gamma-FeOOH. However, the details of the OER mechanism and the surface reactivities of the FeOOH polymorphs have not yet been fully understood. We performed first-principles calculations of bulk and surfaces of beta-FeOOH and gamma-FeOOH using density functional theory, to investigate their electronic structures and catalytic activities. The calculations suggest that depending on the surface indices, several surfaces may be favored for catalytic activities.
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