Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

A nickel iron diselenide-derived efficient oxygen-evolution catalyst

  • Xiang Xu,
  • Fang Song,
  • Xile Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12324
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Metal selenides have been reported as promising oxygen-evolution catalysts but their active forms are yet to be elucidated. Here, the authors show that metal selenides are unstable under oxygen-evolution conditions and that in situgenerated metal oxides/hydroxides are responsible for their high activity.