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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 3, Pages 1077-1080Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b12529
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research under AFOSR Award [FA9550-15-1-9999 (FA9550-15-1-0154)]
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
- DOE BES [DE FG02-03ER15476]
- NSF DMREF [CHE-1534630]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1223988]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [00000001] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1534630] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen comprises the hydrogen and oxygen evolution half reactions (HER and OER), with the latter as the bottleneck process. Thus, enhancing the OER performance and understanding the mechanism are critically important. Herein, we report a strategy for OER enhancement by utilizing gold nanoclusters to form cluster/CoSe2 composites; the latter exhibit largely enhanced OER activity in alkaline solutions. The Au-25/CoSe2 composite affords a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) at small overpotential of, similar to 0.43 V (cf. CoSe2: similar to 0.52 V). The ligand and gold cluster size can also tune the catalytic performance of the composites. Based upon XPS analysis and DFT simulations, we attribute the activity enhancement to electronic interactions between nanocluster and CoSe2, which favors the formation of the important intermediate (OOH) as well as the desorption of oxygen molecules over Au-11/CoSe2 composites in the process of water oxidation. Such an atomic level understanding may provide some guidelines for design of OER catalysts.
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