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Synthesis of FeOOH scaly hollow tubes based on Cu2O wire templates toward high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction

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For catalytic materials, the characteristics of one-dimension and hollowness are the promotion factors for their full presentation of catalytic activity, and through a template-assisted method, both above superiorities can be fused simultaneously. Here, we proposed a novel strategy inspired by Pearson’s principle with Cu2O wires as templates, and prepared FeOOH hollow tubes, which covered by FeOOH scales. When applied as oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst, the FeOOH scaly hollow tubes (FeOOH SHTs) showed outstanding catalytic activity with a low overpotential of 245 mV to drive a current density of 10 mA·cm−2, excellent kinetics manifesting as a low Tafel slope of 46.9 mV·dec−1, and robust stability. This work provides a new synthesis strategy for an ideal OER catalyst, FeOOH, with high inherent activity and enhances the feasibility to broaden the design ideas of transition metal-based catalysts.

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一维中空微纳米催化材料由于其独特的结构特性, 因此具有优异的电化学性能。通过模板辅助方法, 我们可以实现一维中空微纳米结构的可控制备。在本文中, 我们受Pearson原理启发, 提出了一种获得一维中空微纳米催化材料的新策略。以Cu2O线为模板, 制备了FeOOH中空管 (FeOOH SHTs), 其表面呈鳞片状纳米结构, 进一步增大了比表面积。当用作析氧 (OER) 催化剂时, FeOOH中空管表现出优异的催化活性, 仅需要245 mV的低过电位, 就可以驱动10 mA·cm−2的电流密度; 另外其表现出优异的催化动力学, Tafel斜率仅为46.9 mV·dec−1; 并且催化稳定性持久。这项工作为制备具有高固有活性的理想OER催化剂-FeOOH 提供了一种新的策略, 并拓宽了过渡金属基催化剂的设计思路。

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFA0703700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12004031, 12034002 and 51971025), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 2212034), Foshan Talents Special Foundation (No. BKBS202003), the Scientific and Technological Innovation Foundation of Foshan (No. BK22BE005) and Foshan Science and Technology Innovation Project (No. 2018IT100363).

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Zhang, Y., Teng, XA., Ma, ZQ. et al. Synthesis of FeOOH scaly hollow tubes based on Cu2O wire templates toward high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction. Rare Met. 42, 1836–1846 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-023-02284-2

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