Ultrasmall Abundant Metal-Based Clusters as Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts

The oxygen evolution reaction is a crucial step in water electrolysis to develop clean and renewable energy. Although noble metal-based catalysts have demonstrated high activity for the oxygen evolution reaction, their application is limited by their high cost and low availability. Here we report the use of a molecule-to-cluster strategy for preparing ultrasmall trimetallic clusters by using the polyoxometalate molecule as a precursor. Ultrafine (0.8 nm) transition-metal clusters with controllable chemical composition are obtained. The transition-metal clusters enable highly efficient oxygen evolution through water electrolysis in alkaline media, manifested by an overpotential of 192 mV at 10 mA cm–2, a low Tafel slope of 36 mV dec–1, and long-term stability for 30 h of electrolysis. We note, however, that besides the excellent performance as an oxygen evolution catalyst, our molecule-to-cluster strategy provides a means to achieve well-defined transition-metal clusters in the subnanometer regime, which potentially can have an impact on several other applications.

Tang, Xing-Yan (författare)
Lin, Yue (författare)
Gracia-Espino, EduardoUmeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik(Swepub:umu)eded0002 (författare)
Liu, San-Gui (författare)
Liang, Hai-Wei (författare)
Hu, GuangzhiUmeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik,Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Plant Resources in Arid Regions, State Key Laboratory Basis of Xinjiang Indigenous Medicinal Plants Resource Utilization, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China(Swepub:umu)guhu0004 (författare)
Zhao, Xin-Jing (författare)
Liao, Hong-Gang (författare)
Tan, Yuan-Zhi (författare)
Wågberg, Thomas,1971-Umeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik(Swepub:umu)thwa0002 (författare)
Xie, Su-Yuan (författare)
Zheng, Lan-Sun (författare)
Umeå universitetInstitutionen för fysik (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Journal of the American Chemical Society: American Chemical Society (ACS)141:1, s. 232-2390002-78631520-5126

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