Efficient overall water splitting in acid with anisotropic metal nanosheets.
Dongshuang WuKohei KusudaSatoru YoshiokaTomokazu YamamotoTakaaki ToriyamaSyo MatsumuraYanna ChenOkkyun SeoJaemyung KimChulho SongSatoshi HiroiSakata OsamiToshiaki InaShogo KawaguchiYoshiki KubotaHirokazu KobayashiHiroshi KitagawaPublished in: Nature communications (2021)
Water is the only available fossil-free source of hydrogen. Splitting water electrochemically is among the most used techniques, however, it accounts for only 4% of global hydrogen production. One of the reasons is the high cost and low performance of catalysts promoting the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Here, we report a highly efficient catalyst in acid, that is, solid-solution Ru‒Ir nanosized-coral (RuIr-NC) consisting of 3 nm-thick sheets with only 6 at.% Ir. Among OER catalysts, RuIr-NC shows the highest intrinsic activity and stability. A home-made overall water splitting cell using RuIr-NC as both electrodes can reach 10 mA cm-2geo at 1.485 V for 120 h without noticeable degradation, which outperforms known cells. Operando spectroscopy and atomic-resolution electron microscopy indicate that the high-performance results from the ability of the preferentially exposed {0001} facets to resist the formation of dissolvable metal oxides and to transform ephemeral Ru into a long-lived catalyst.
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