The low overpotential regime of acidic water oxidation part II: trends in metal and oxygen stability numbers† † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/d1ee03915f

ABSTRACT: The operating conditions of low pH and high potential at the anodes of polymer electrolyte membrane electrolysers restrict the choice of catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) to oxides based on the rare metals iridium or ruthenium. In this work, we investigate the stability of both the metal atoms and, by quantitative and highly sensitive 18O isotope labelling experiments, the oxygen atoms in a series of RuOx and IrOx electrocatalysts during the OER in the mechanistically interesting low overpotential regime. We show that materials based on RuOx have a higher dissolution rate than the rate of incorporation of labelled oxygen from the catalyst into the O2 evolved (“labelled OER”), while for IrOx-based catalysts the two rates are comparable. On amorphous RuOx, metal dissolution a

SUBMITTER: Scott S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9116156 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature