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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 28, 期 18, 页码 6591-6604出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02625
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- Competence Center Energy & Mobility (CCEM-CH)
- Commission for Technology & Innovation Switzerland
- Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) Heat & Electricity Storage
A current challenge faced in water electrolysis is the development of structure-activity relationships for understanding and improving IrOx-based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). We report a simple and scalable modified Adams fusion method for preparing highly OER active, chlorine-free iridium oxide nanoparticles of various size and shape. The applied approach allows for the effects of particle size, morphology, and the nature of the surface species on the OER activity of IrO2 to be investigated. Iridium oxide synthesized at 350 degrees C from Ir(acac)(3), consisting of 1.7 +/- 0.4 nm particles with a specific surface area of 150 m(2) g(-1), shows the highest OER activity (E = 1.499 +/- 0.003 V at 10 A g(ox)(-1)). Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) studies indicate the presence of iridium hydroxo (Ir-OH) surface species, which are strongly linked to the OER activity. Preparation of larger IrO2 particles using higher temperatures results in a change of the particle morphology from spherical to rod-shaped particles. A decrease of the intrinsic OER activity was associated with the predominant termination of the rod-shape particles by highly ordered (110) facets in addition to limited diffusion within mesoporous features.
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