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Amorphous-crystalline RuTi nanosheets enhancing OH species adsorption for efficient hydrogen oxidation catalysis

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Hu,  Zhiwei
Zhiwei Hu, Physics of Correlated Matter, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Wei, L., Fang, N., Xue, F., Liu, S., Huang, W.-H., Pao, C.-W., et al. (2024). Amorphous-crystalline RuTi nanosheets enhancing OH species adsorption for efficient hydrogen oxidation catalysis. Chemical Science, 15, 3928-3935. doi:10.1039/d3sc06705j.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000E-9CE2-3
Abstract
Anion exchange membrane fuel cells are a potentially cost-effective energy conversion technology, however, the electrocatalyst for the anodic hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) suffers from sluggish kinetics under alkaline conditions. Herein, we report that Ru-based nanosheets with amorphous-crystalline heterointerfaces of Ru and Ti-doped RuO2 (a/c-Ru/Ti-RuO2) can serve as a highly efficient HOR catalyst with a mass activity of 4.16 A mgRu-1, which is 19.8-fold higher than that of commercial Pt/C. Detailed characterization studies show that abundant amorphous-crystalline heterointerfaces of a/c-Ru/Ti-RuO2 nanosheets provide oxygen vacancies and unsaturated coordination bonds for balancing adsorption of hydrogen and hydroxyl species on Ru active sites to elevate HOR activity. Moreover, Ti doping can facilitate CO oxidation, leading to enhanced strength to CO poisoning. This work provides a strategy for enhancing alkaline HOR performance over Ru-based catalysts with heteroatom and heterointerface dual-engineering, which will attract immediate interest in chemistry, materials science and beyond.
Ti-doped Ru nanosheets with an amorphous-crystalline heterointerface of Ru and RuO2 have been created for weakening binding energy of Ru-H and strengthening OH adsorption, where the alkaline HOR activity is 19.8 times higher than that of Pt/C.