Nature Communications (May 2020)
In-situ structure and catalytic mechanism of NiFe and CoFe layered double hydroxides during oxygen evolution
- Fabio Dionigi,
- Zhenhua Zeng,
- Ilya Sinev,
- Thomas Merzdorf,
- Siddharth Deshpande,
- Miguel Bernal Lopez,
- Sebastian Kunze,
- Ioannis Zegkinoglou,
- Hannes Sarodnik,
- Dingxin Fan,
- Arno Bergmann,
- Jakub Drnec,
- Jorge Ferreira de Araujo,
- Manuel Gliech,
- Detre Teschner,
- Jing Zhu,
- Wei-Xue Li,
- Jeffrey Greeley,
- Beatriz Roldan Cuenya,
- Peter Strasser
Affiliations
- Fabio Dionigi
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- Zhenhua Zeng
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
- Ilya Sinev
- Department of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- Thomas Merzdorf
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- Siddharth Deshpande
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
- Miguel Bernal Lopez
- Department of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- Sebastian Kunze
- Department of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- Ioannis Zegkinoglou
- Department of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- Hannes Sarodnik
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- Dingxin Fan
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
- Arno Bergmann
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- Jakub Drnec
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- Jorge Ferreira de Araujo
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- Manuel Gliech
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- Detre Teschner
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Jing Zhu
- CAS Excellence Center for Nanoscience, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Wei-Xue Li
- CAS Excellence Center for Nanoscience, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Jeffrey Greeley
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
- Beatriz Roldan Cuenya
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Peter Strasser
- The Electrochemical Energy, Catalysis, and Materials Science Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division, Technical University Berlin
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16237-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
NiFe and CoFe layered double hydroxides are among the most active electrocatalysts for the alkaline oxygen evolution reaction. Here, by combining operando experiments and rigorous DFT calculations, the authors unravel their active phase, the reaction center and the catalytic mechanism.