Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 7, Issue 35, Pages 19755-19763Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05594
Keywords
water oxidation; oxygen evolution; nanocrystals; none quilibrium; nickel oxide; iron oxide; electrolysis
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2014-05195]
- Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) [IC50-T1]
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Mixed nickel iron oxides are of great interest as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the kinetically challenging half-reaction required for the generation of hydrogen gas from water via electrolysis. Previously, we had reported the synthesis of single crystal, soluble nickel iron oxide nanopartides over a wide range of nickel:iron compositions, with a metastable cubic rock salt phase ([Ni,Fe]0) that can be isolated despite the low solubility of iron in cubic nickel oxide at ambient temperatures. Here, activity for OER was examined, catalyzed by these [Ni,Fe] 0 nanoparticles integrated with indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. Because the as-prepared [Ni,Fe] 0 nanopartides are oleate-capped, the surface ligands needed to be removed to induce adherence to the ITO substrate, and to enable charge transfer and contact with water to enable OER catalysis. Two different approaches were taken to reduce or eliminate the coverage of oleate ligands in these films: UV irradiation (254 nm) and air plasma. UV irradiation proved to lead to better results in terms of stable and OER-active fihns at pH 13. Kinetic analysis revealed that the Tafel slopes of these nanoparticle [Ni,Fe]0 OER electrodes were limited by the electrochemical surface area and were found to be within the range of 30 to 50 mV/decade. Across the four compositions of Ni:Fe studied, from 24:76 to 88:12, the observed overpotential at 10 mA/cm2 for the OER in basic conditions decreased from 0.47 to 0.30 V as the proportion of nickel increased from 24% to 88%.
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