The role of strain in oxygen evolution reaction

The oxygen evolution reaction(OER)is a crucial step in metal-air batteries and water splitting technologies,playing a significant role in the efficiency and achievable heights of these two technologies.However,the OER is a four-step,four-electron reaction,and its slow kinetics result in high overpotentials,posing a challenge.To address this issue,numerous strategies involving modified catalysts have been proposed and proven to be highly efficient.In these strategies,the introduction of strain has been widely reported because it is generally believed to effectively regulate the electronic structure of metal sites and alter the adsorption energy of catalyst surfaces with reaction intermediates.However,strain has many other effects that are not well known,making it an important yet unexplored area.Based on this,this review provides a detailed introduction to the various roles of strain in OER.To better explain these roles,the review also presents the definition of strain and elucidates the potential mechanisms of strain in OER based on the d-band center theory and adsorption volcano plot.Additionally,the review showcases various ways of introducing strain in OER through examples reported in the latest literature,aiming to provide a comprehensive perspective for the development of strain engineering.Finally,the review analyzes the appropriate proportion of strain introduction,compares compressive and tensile strain,and examines the impact of strain on stability.And the review offers prospects for future research directions in this emerging field.

Excess capacity on compound phases of Li_(2)FeTiO_(4) composite cathode materials synthesized by hydrothermal reaction using optional titanium sources to boost battery performance

Li_(2)FeTiO_(4) composites have been produced using commercial LiAC,FeCl_(2) and different titanium sources by hydrothermal synthesis(HS)at 175℃and subsequent annealing at 700℃.Impure phase TiO_(2),Fe_(2)O_(3) and FeTi0_(4) were detected out among the Li_(2)FeTiO_(4) composites with different titanium sources.Micron and nano-sized particles of Li2FeTiO4 were prepared from various titanium raw materials,with nano-sized particles predominating when titanium raw materials were layered hydrogen titanate nanowire(H2Ti3O7 NW,HTO-NW)and titanium oxide nanotubes(TiO_(2) NB).The Li_(2)FeTiO_(4) composites synthesized by HTO-NW shows a primary particle size of 50-200 nm of high crystallinity staggered with undissolved nanowire with a diameter size of about 100 nm.The samples using one-dimensio nal nanometer titanium oxide(TiO2 NB)as the raw material can get a super high initial discharge capacity of 367.8 mAh/g at the rate of C/10 and excellent cycling stability.The selection of raw materials and adopting multi-phase modification can be considered as an effective strategy to improve the electro-chemical properties of Li_(2)FeTiO_(4) composite cathode materials for the lithium secondary battery.