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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 33, 期 9, 页码 3297-3303出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00370
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- Velux Foundations through the research center V-Sustain [9455]
- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, through the Special Competence Initiative Autonomous Materials Discovery
The study showed that by applying strain and cationic doping of Ca and Sr, it is possible to optimize the theoretical overpotential of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), leading to improved electrocatalytic reactions.
Oxynitride perovskites such as BaTaO2N are among the most promising materials to achieve efficient direct solar-to-chemical conversion. Albeit photoelectrochemical water splitting has been demonstrated, the required overpotentials remain prohibitively large compared with the theoretically accessible values, particularly for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Here, we apply density functional theory (DFT) calculations to investigate the use of strain and cationic doping with Ca and Sr to optimize the OER theoretical overpotential. For the TaON-terminated BaTaO2N (001) surface, 4% compressive uniaxial strain can lower the theoretical overpotential to eta = 0.59 V, under operational conditions. For the most stable TaO2N-(100) termination, 1% tensile uniaxial strain, which is perfectly accessible by experiments, is enough to reduce the theoretical overpotential from eta = 0.43 V to eta = 0.37 V under (photo)electrochemical conditions. This value is close to the minimum predicted theoretical overpotential and points out how strain engineering could be efficiently used to improve the electrocatalytic reactions.
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