Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Dynamic active-site generation of atomic iridium stabilized on nanoporous metal phosphides for water oxidation

  • Kang Jiang,
  • Min Luo,
  • Ming Peng,
  • Yaqian Yu,
  • Ying-Rui Lu,
  • Ting-Shan Chan,
  • Pan Liu,
  • Frank M. F. de Groot,
  • Yongwen Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16558-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Direct observation of the atomic and electronic structure of a single-atom catalyst is essential. Here, the authors report an oxyhydroxide stabilized iridium catalyst with superior oxygen evolution catalytic activity and identify the isolated iridium sites which promote the H2O attack and O–O coupling.