Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Efficient and stable noble-metal-free catalyst for acidic water oxidation

  • Sanjiang Pan,
  • Hao Li,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Rui Huang,
  • Xuelei Pan,
  • Dan Ren,
  • Jun Li,
  • Mohsen Shakouri,
  • Qixing Zhang,
  • Manjing Wang,
  • Changchun Wei,
  • Liqiang Mai,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Ying Zhao,
  • Zhenbin Wang,
  • Michael Graetzel,
  • Xiaodan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30064-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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While acidic water splitting offers a renewable means to obtain renewable hydrogen fuel, the catalysts needed to oxidize water often require expensive noble metals. Here, authors show manganese oxyhalides as acidic oxygen evolution electrocatalysts.