Introducing Brønsted acid sites to accelerate the bridging-oxygen-assisted deprotonation in acidic water oxidation

While water electrolysis devices represent a technology for renewable energy, there are few stable catalysts that survive the acidic conditions. Here, authors enhance acidic oxygen evolution by introducing strong Brønsted acid sites into RuO2 to accelerate bridging-oxygen-assisted deprotonation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yunzhou Wen, Cheng Liu, Rui Huang, Hui Zhang, Xiaobao Li, F. Pelayo García de Arquer, Zhi Liu, Youyong Li, Bo Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32581-w