Sulfur-Modified Oxygen Vacancies in Iron-Cobalt Oxide Nanosheets: Enabling Extremely High Activity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction to Achieve the Industrial Water Splitting Benchmark

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Zhuang, Linzhou
Jia, Yi
Liu, Hongli
Li, Zhiheng
Li, Mengran
Zhang, Longzhou
Wang, Xin
Yang, Dongjiang
Zhu, Zhonghua
Yao, Xiangdong
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2020
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The oxygen vacancies of defective iron–cobalt oxide (FeCoOx‐Vo) nanosheets are modified by the homogeneously distributed sulfur (S) atoms. S atoms can not only effectively stabilize oxygen vacancies (Vo), but also form the Co−S coordination with Co active site in the Vo, which can modulate the electronic structure of the active site, enabling FeCoOx‐Vo‐S to exhibit much superior OER activity. FeCoOx‐Vo‐S exhibits a mass activity of 2440.0 A g−1 at 1.5 V vs. RHE in 1.0 m KOH, 25.4 times higher than that of RuO2. The Tafel slope is as low as 21.0 mV dec−1, indicative of its excellent charge transfer rate. When FeCoOx‐Vo‐S (anode catalyst) is paired with the defective CoP3/Ni2P (cathode catalyst) for overall water splitting, current densities of as high as 249.0 mA cm−2 and 406.0 mA cm−2 at a cell voltage of 2.0 V and 2.3 V, respectively, can be achieved.

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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59

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34

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Chemical sciences

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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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heteroatom modification

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Zhuang, L; Jia, Y; Liu, H; Li, Z; Li, M; Zhang, L; Wang, X; Yang, D; Zhu, Z; Yao, X, Sulfur-Modified Oxygen Vacancies in Iron-Cobalt Oxide Nanosheets: Enabling Extremely High Activity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction to Achieve the Industrial Water Splitting Benchmark, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59 (34), pp. 14664-14670

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