Electrocatalytic water splitting provides an efficient method for the production of hydrogen.In electrocatalytic water splitting,the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)involves a kinetically sluggish four-electron transfer...Electrocatalytic water splitting provides an efficient method for the production of hydrogen.In electrocatalytic water splitting,the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)involves a kinetically sluggish four-electron transfer process,which limits the efficiency of electrocatalytic water splitting.Therefore,it is urgent to develop highly active OER catalysts to accelerate reaction kinetics.Coupling single atoms and clusters in one system is an innovative approach for developing efficient catalysts that can synergistically optimize the adsorption and configuration of intermediates and improve catalytic activity.However,research in this area is still scarce.Herein,we constructed a heterogeneous single-atom cluster system by anchoring Ir single atoms and Co clusters on the surface of Ni(OH)_(2)nanosheets.Ir single atoms and Co clusters synergistically improved the catalytic activity toward the OER.Specifically,Co_(n)Ir_(1)/Ni(OH)_(2)required an overpotential of 255 mV at a current density of 10 mA·cm^(−2),which was 60 mV and 67 mV lower than those of Co_(n)/Ni(OH)_(2)and Ir1/Ni(OH)_(2),respectively.The turnover frequency of Co_(n)Ir_(1)/Ni(OH)_(2)was 0.49 s^(−1),which was 4.9 times greater than that of Co_(n)/Ni(OH)_(2)at an overpotential of 300 mV.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22273084,No.22022305)the Open Fund of the State Key Labora-tory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics in DICP,CAS.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11574289)Special Program for Applied Research on Supercomputation of the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund(U1501501)“111”Project of the Education Ministry and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WK6030000088)
基金supported by Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano ScienceTechnology, MOST of China (2014CB932700)+5 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21603208, 21573206)Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the CAS (QYZDBSSW-SLH017)Anhui Provincial Key Scientific and Technological Project (1704a0902013)Major Program of Development Foundation of Hefei Center for Physical Science and Technology (2017FXZY002)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesCAS-TWAS president’s fellowship~~
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1500500,2019-YFA0405600)the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-051)+6 种基金the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(21925204)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22202192,U19A2015,22221003,22250007,22163002)the Collaborative Innovation Program of Hefei Science Center,CAS(2022HSCCIP004)the International Partnership,the DNL Cooperation Fund,CAS(DNL202003)the USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative(YD9990002016,YD999000-2014)the Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(123GJHZ2022101GC)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WK9990000095,WK999000-0124).
文摘Electrocatalytic water splitting provides an efficient method for the production of hydrogen.In electrocatalytic water splitting,the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)involves a kinetically sluggish four-electron transfer process,which limits the efficiency of electrocatalytic water splitting.Therefore,it is urgent to develop highly active OER catalysts to accelerate reaction kinetics.Coupling single atoms and clusters in one system is an innovative approach for developing efficient catalysts that can synergistically optimize the adsorption and configuration of intermediates and improve catalytic activity.However,research in this area is still scarce.Herein,we constructed a heterogeneous single-atom cluster system by anchoring Ir single atoms and Co clusters on the surface of Ni(OH)_(2)nanosheets.Ir single atoms and Co clusters synergistically improved the catalytic activity toward the OER.Specifically,Co_(n)Ir_(1)/Ni(OH)_(2)required an overpotential of 255 mV at a current density of 10 mA·cm^(−2),which was 60 mV and 67 mV lower than those of Co_(n)/Ni(OH)_(2)and Ir1/Ni(OH)_(2),respectively.The turnover frequency of Co_(n)Ir_(1)/Ni(OH)_(2)was 0.49 s^(−1),which was 4.9 times greater than that of Co_(n)/Ni(OH)_(2)at an overpotential of 300 mV.
