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Iron Is the Active Site in Nickel/Iron Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts
Abstract
Efficient catalysis of the oxygen-evolution half-reaction (OER) is a pivotal requirement for the development of practical solar-driven water splitting devices. Heterogeneous OER electrocatalysts containing first-row transition metal oxides and hydroxides have attracted considerable recent interest, owing in part to the high abundance and low cost of starting materials. Among the best performing OER electrocatalysts are mixed Fe/Ni layered double hydroxides (LDH). A review of the available experimental data leads to the conclusion that iron is the active site for [NiFe]-LDH-catalyzed alkaline water oxidation.
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© 2018 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0). Received: 28 February 2018 / Revised: 10 April 2018 / Accepted: 12 April 2018 / Published: 14 April 2018. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Photosynthesis: Recent Progress in Solar Energy Utilization). This work was supported by the NSF CCI Solar Fuels Program (CHE-1305124) and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. B.M.H. acknowledges a Fellowship from the Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech. The authors declare no conflict of interest.Attached Files
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- PMC6017163
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- NSF
- CHE-1305124
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- Resnick Sustainability Institute
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- Resnick Sustainability Institute , CCI Solar Fuels