Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts

Laia Francàs; Sacha Corby; Shababa Selim; Dongho Lee; Camilo A. Mesa; Robert Godin; Ernest Pastor; Ifan E. L. Stephens; Kyoung-Shin Choi; James R. Durrant

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13061-0

Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts

Laia Francàs,
Sacha Corby,
Shababa Selim,
Dongho Lee,
Camilo A. Mesa,
Robert Godin,
Ernest Pastor,
Ifan E. L. Stephens,
Kyoung-Shin Choi,
James R. Durrant

Affiliations

Laia Francàs: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Sacha Corby: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Shababa Selim: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Dongho Lee: Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Camilo A. Mesa: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Robert Godin: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Ernest Pastor: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Ifan E. L. Stephens: Department of Materials, Imperial College London
Kyoung-Shin Choi: Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
James R. Durrant: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13061-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Multimetallic oxyhydroxides are highly active electrocatalysts for water oxidation but their mechanism and the role of each metal is poorly understood. Here, authors use spectroelectrochemical techniques to probe the species accumulated during catalysis in Ni/Fe oxyhydroxide films.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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