Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Key activity descriptors of nickel-iron oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in the presence of alkali metal cations

  • Mikaela Görlin,
  • Joakim Halldin Stenlid,
  • Sergey Koroidov,
  • Hsin-Yi Wang,
  • Mia Börner,
  • Mikhail Shipilin,
  • Aleksandr Kalinko,
  • Vadim Murzin,
  • Olga V. Safonova,
  • Maarten Nachtegaal,
  • Abdusalam Uheida,
  • Joydeep Dutta,
  • Matthias Bauer,
  • Anders Nilsson,
  • Oscar Diaz-Morales

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19729-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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It is commonly accepted that electrolyte alkali metal cations modify the catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction. Here the authors challenge this assumption, showing that the activity is actually affected by a change in the electrolyte pH rather than a specific alkali cation.