Amorphous Doping Promotes Utilization of Fe‐Doped Amorphous Zr(HPO4)2 for Superb Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis. Issue 15 (19th April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Ruonan; Li, Yanxin; Tan, Xueling; Zhang, Jifu; Li, Can; Cao, Lixin; Dong, Bohua
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials interfaces. Volume 9:Issue 15(2022)
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• Publication Date: 2022-04-19
• Subjects: amorphous Zr(HPO4)2 -- Fe doping -- oxygen evolution reaction; Materials science -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/admi.202200387
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2196-7350

Abstract

Abstract: Doping hetero‐atoms on the surface of host materials, namely effective doping with high atom utilization, is a promising strategy to optimize the activity of electrocatalysts for water electrolysis, especially for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, high utilization of doped atoms is successfully achieved in Fe‐doped 2D amorphous Zr(HPO4 )2 nanosheets (amorphous Fe‐ZrP). Due to the unique amorphous surface with a large scale of coordinated unsaturated sites, a great quantity of Fe dopants with tunable electron density can anchor on the surface of the 2D amorphous Fe‐ZrP nanosheet. Benefitting from the ultrathin 2D structure and abundant Fe active sites on the amorphous surface, 2D amorphous Fe‐ZrP nanosheets exhibit outstanding OER activity, which is significantly superior to most OER electrocatalysts. This work offers new insights to promote doped atom utilization via amorphous doping for superb water splitting electrocatalysis. Abstract : High utilization of doped atoms is successfully achieved in Fe‐doped 2D amorphous Zr(HPO4 )2 nanosheets (amorphous Fe‐ZrP), which is 6.47‐fold higher than that of crystalline counterpart. Eventually, a 2D amorphous Fe‐ZrP nanosheet could present a low overpotential of 209 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA cm –2, which is much smaller compared to the value of 317 mV of Crystal Fe‐ZrP.