Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts

Single-atom catalysts with maximum metal utilization efficiency show great potential for sustainable catalytic applications and fundamental mechanistic studies. We here provide a convenient molecular tailoring strategy based on graphitic carbon nitride as support for the rational design of single-si...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Wan, W, Zhao, Y, Wei, S, Triana, CA, Li, J, Arcifa, A, Allen, CS, Cao, R, Patzke, GR
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منشور في: Springer Nature 2021
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author Wan, W
Zhao, Y
Wei, S
Triana, CA
Li, J
Arcifa, A
Allen, CS
Cao, R
Patzke, GR
author_facet Wan, W
Zhao, Y
Wei, S
Triana, CA
Li, J
Arcifa, A
Allen, CS
Cao, R
Patzke, GR
author_sort Wan, W
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description Single-atom catalysts with maximum metal utilization efficiency show great potential for sustainable catalytic applications and fundamental mechanistic studies. We here provide a convenient molecular tailoring strategy based on graphitic carbon nitride as support for the rational design of single-site and dual-site single-atom catalysts. Catalysts with single Fe sites exhibit impressive oxygen reduction reaction activity with a half-wave potential of 0.89 V vs. RHE. We find that the single Ni sites are favorable to promote the key structural reconstruction into bridging Ni-O-Fe bonds in dual-site NiFe SAC. Meanwhile, the newly formed Ni-O-Fe bonds create spin channels for electron transfer, resulting in a significant improvement of the oxygen evolution reaction activity with an overpotential of 270 mV at 10 mA cm−2. We further reveal that the water oxidation reaction follows a dual-site pathway through the deprotonation of *OH at both Ni and Fe sites, leading to the formation of bridging O2 atop the Ni-O-Fe sites.
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spelling oxford-uuid:0925997a-d6ac-464f-a81b-b3d7b1cf53c42022-03-26T09:16:40ZMechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalystsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0925997a-d6ac-464f-a81b-b3d7b1cf53c4EnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringer Nature2021Wan, WZhao, YWei, STriana, CALi, JArcifa, AAllen, CSCao, RPatzke, GRSingle-atom catalysts with maximum metal utilization efficiency show great potential for sustainable catalytic applications and fundamental mechanistic studies. We here provide a convenient molecular tailoring strategy based on graphitic carbon nitride as support for the rational design of single-site and dual-site single-atom catalysts. Catalysts with single Fe sites exhibit impressive oxygen reduction reaction activity with a half-wave potential of 0.89 V vs. RHE. We find that the single Ni sites are favorable to promote the key structural reconstruction into bridging Ni-O-Fe bonds in dual-site NiFe SAC. Meanwhile, the newly formed Ni-O-Fe bonds create spin channels for electron transfer, resulting in a significant improvement of the oxygen evolution reaction activity with an overpotential of 270 mV at 10 mA cm−2. We further reveal that the water oxidation reaction follows a dual-site pathway through the deprotonation of *OH at both Ni and Fe sites, leading to the formation of bridging O2 atop the Ni-O-Fe sites.
spellingShingle Wan, W
Zhao, Y
Wei, S
Triana, CA
Li, J
Arcifa, A
Allen, CS
Cao, R
Patzke, GR
Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts
title Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts
title_full Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts
title_fullStr Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts
title_full_unstemmed Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts
title_short Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts
title_sort mechanistic insight into the active centers of single dual atom ni fe based oxygen electrocatalysts
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