Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Interface engineering breaks both stability and activity limits of RuO2 for sustainable water oxidation

  • Kun Du,
  • Lifu Zhang,
  • Jieqiong Shan,
  • Jiaxin Guo,
  • Jing Mao,
  • Chueh-Cheng Yang,
  • Chia-Hsin Wang,
  • Zhenpeng Hu,
  • Tao Ling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33150-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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RuO2 encounters critical electrochemical dissolution issues during oxygen evolution reaction and it remains a grand challenge to achieve stable and active RuO2 electrocatalyst. Here, the authors report breaking stability and activity limits of RuO2 by constructing a RuO2/CoO x interface.