The sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction(OER),an essential half-reaction of water splitting,lead to high OER overpotential and low energy-conversion efficiency,hampering its industrial application.Theref...The sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction(OER),an essential half-reaction of water splitting,lead to high OER overpotential and low energy-conversion efficiency,hampering its industrial application.Therefore,considerable attention has been paid to the development of efficient catalysts to accelerate the OER.In this study,we synthesized the high-entropy oxides[(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O]and used them as efficient OER catalysts.A simple oil-phase method was used to synthesize(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O.The catalytic performances of the(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O catalysts were modified by tuning the reaction temperature.The optimized(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O catalyst exhibited multiple elemental interactions and abundant exposed active sites,leading to an overpotential of approximately 264 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA cm^(-2) in 1 M KOH and stability of 50 h at 1000 mA cm^(-2).Thus,a highly active OER catalyst was synthesized.This study provides an efficient approach for the synthesis of high-entropy oxides.展开更多
文摘The sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction(OER),an essential half-reaction of water splitting,lead to high OER overpotential and low energy-conversion efficiency,hampering its industrial application.Therefore,considerable attention has been paid to the development of efficient catalysts to accelerate the OER.In this study,we synthesized the high-entropy oxides[(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O]and used them as efficient OER catalysts.A simple oil-phase method was used to synthesize(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O.The catalytic performances of the(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O catalysts were modified by tuning the reaction temperature.The optimized(FeCoNiMnV)_(x)O catalyst exhibited multiple elemental interactions and abundant exposed active sites,leading to an overpotential of approximately 264 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA cm^(-2) in 1 M KOH and stability of 50 h at 1000 mA cm^(-2).Thus,a highly active OER catalyst was synthesized.This study provides an efficient approach for the synthesis of high-entropy oxides.
