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CHEMCATCHEM
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 2551-2557Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201800200
Keywords
Disordered; Lithium nickel oxides; Oxygen evolution reaction; Pseudo-spinel
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51302282]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [201701D221055]
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In this work, three different structures of lithium nickel oxide (LNO) synthesized by simple methods as inexpensive and efficient electrocatalyst for OER were presented. The catalytic activities of LNO catalysts for OER were pseudo-spinel (PS-LiNiO2) > disordered (DO-LiNiO2) > layered (L-LiNiO2) lithium nickel oxide. Particularly, PS-LiNiO2 demonstrated much lower tafel slope of 62 mV dec(-1) with the highest durability whereas the layered LNO catalysts exhibited the higher tafel slope of 88 mV dec (-1), respectively. To elucidate the origin of high activities of LNO catalysts, three structures of LNO were studied by EXAFS measurements and DFT theoretical calculation. Compared to L-LiNiO2, PS-LiNiO2, including Ni4O4 cubane structural motifs, exhibited higher valent states and lower Ni d-band center to drive the catalytic reaction. Thus, our results demonstrated that the activities of LNO can be optimized by controlling the value states, chemical and local electronic structure of Ni via novel design approaches.
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