A Reliable Aerosol‐Spray‐Assisted Approach to Produce and Optimize Amorphous Metal Oxide Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting

Long Kuai, Jing Geng, Changyu Chen, Erjie Kan, Yadong Liu, Qing Wang, Baoyou Geng

Angewandte Chemie · 2014 · 67 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

Abstract An aerosol‐spray‐assisted approach (ASAA) is proposed and confirmed as a precisely controllable and continuous method to fabricate amorphous mixed metal oxides for electrochemical water splitting. The proportion of metal elements can be accurately controlled to within (5±5) %. The products can be sustainably obtained, which is highly suitable for industrial applications. ASAA was used to show that Fe 6 Ni 10 O x is the best catalyst among the investigated Fe‐Ni‐O x series with an overpotential of as low as 0.286 V (10 mA cm −2 ) and a Tafel slope of 48 mV/decade for the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction. Therefore, this work contributes a versatile, continuous, and reliable way to produce and optimize amorphous metal oxide catalysts.

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