Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 7, Issue 39, Pages 21852-21859Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06195
Keywords
electrocatalysis; iron; film preparation; oxygen evolution; water splitting
Funding
- Thousand Talents Program of China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21101170]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Renmin University of China
- Shaanxi Normal University
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An ultrathin Fe-based film was prepared by electrodeposition from an Fe-II solution through a fast and simple cyclic voltammetry method. The extremely low Fe loading of 12.3 nmol cm(-2) on indium tin oxide electrodes is crucial for high atom efficiency and transparence of the resulted film. This Fe-based film was shown to be a very efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution from neutral aqueous solution with remarkable activity and stability. In a 34 h controlled potential electrolysis at 1.45 V (vs NHE) and pH 7.0, impressive turnover number of 5.2 X 10(4) and turnover frequency of 1528 h(-1) were obtained. To the best of our knowledge, these values represent one of the highest among electrodeposited catalyst films for water oxidation under comparable conditions. The morphology and the composition of the catalyst film was determined by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, which all confirmed the deposition of Fe-based materials with Fell' oxidation state on the electrode. This study is significant because of the use of iron, the fast and simple cyclic voltammetry electrodeposition, the extremely low catalyst loading and thus the transparency of the catalyst film, the remarkable activity and stability, and the oxygen evolution in neutral aqueous media.
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