Fast and Simple Preparation of Iron‐Based Thin Films as Highly Efficient Water‐Oxidation Catalysts in Neutral Aqueous Solution |
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| Authors: | Yizhen Wu Mingxing Chen Yongzhen Han Prof?Dr Hongxia Luo Xiaojun Su Prof?Dr Ming‐Tian Zhang Xiaohuan Lin Prof?Dr Junliang Sun Lei Wang Prof?Dr Liang Deng Prof?Dr Wei Zhang Prof?Dr Rui Cao |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872 (China);2. Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China);3. College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China);4. State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032 (China);5. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119 (China) |
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| Abstract: | Water oxidation is the key step in natural and artificial photosynthesis for solar‐energy conversion. As this process is thermodynamically unfavorable and is challenging from a kinetic point of view, the development of highly efficient catalysts with low energy cost is a subject of fundamental significance. Herein, we report on iron‐based films as highly efficient water‐oxidation catalysts. The films can be quickly deposited onto electrodes from FeII ions in acetate buffer at pH 7.0 by simple cyclic voltammetry. The extremely low iron loading on the electrodes is critical for improved atom efficiency for catalysis. Our results showed that this film could catalyze water oxidation in neutral phosphate solution with a turnover frequency (TOF) of 756 h?1 at an applied overpotential of 530 mV. The significance of this approach includes the use of earth‐abundant iron, the fast and simple method for catalyst preparation, the low catalyst loading, and the large TOF for O2 evolution in neutral aqueous media. |
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| Keywords: | electrocatalysis film preparation iron oxygen evolution water splitting |
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