期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
卷 45, 期 1, 页码 424-432出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.10.130
关键词
Oxygen defects; Plasma treatment; Oxygen evolution reaction; Thin films
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11605063, 11975102, 91745203]
- Guangzhou Science and Technology Program General Projects [201707010146]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2018M540]
- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering [2018TS08]
- Guangdong Pearl River Talent Program [2017GC010281]
- Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program [2014ZT05N200]
Low-cost transition metal oxides (TMO) has received extensive attention as new generation oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts. In recent years, introducing oxygen defects via various strategies emerged as an efficient way to increase electro-catalytic activity of TMO. Despite many successful examples, the physical and chemical origin of such enhanced OER activity induced by oxygen defects is still not well understood. In this work, we systematically investigate the correlation between the concentration of oxygen vacancies and OER activity by using a NiO thin film model system grown by pulsed laser deposition. Oxygen vacancies are introduced into NiO thin films by Ar plasma treatments with different power (50 W, 100 W, and 150 W). The OER activities of NiO thin films are found to be significantly enhanced after plasma treatment. The improvement in electrochemical OER performance is attributed to the creation of oxygen defects, which lead to the strongly modified surface adsorption properties, as confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and contact angle measurements. Our results demonstrate that plasma treatment as a promising method for precisely tuning physical and chemical properties of TMO through oxygen defects engineering to obtain high performance electro-catalysts. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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