Nickel–vanadium monolayer double hydroxide for efficient electrochemical water oxidation

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Ke Fan1, Hong Chen1, Yongfei Ji2, Hui Huang3, Per M. Claesson3, Quentin Daniel1, Bertrand Philippe4, Håkan Rensmo4, Fusheng Li1, Yi Luo2, Licheng Sun5
1Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 10044, Sweden
2Division of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden
3Department of Chemistry, Surface and Corrosion Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10044, Sweden
4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden
5State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, 116024, China

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AbstractHighly active and low-cost electrocatalysts for water oxidation are required due to the demands on sustainable solar fuels; however, developing highly efficient catalysts to meet industrial requirements remains a challenge. Herein, we report a monolayer of nickel–vanadium-layered double hydroxide that shows a current density of 27 mA cm−2(57 mA cm−2after ohmic-drop correction) at an overpotential of 350 mV for water oxidation. Such performance is comparable to those of the best-performing nickel–iron-layered double hydroxides for water oxidation in alkaline media. Mechanistic studies indicate that the nickel–vanadium-layered double hydroxides can provide high intrinsic catalytic activity, mainly due to enhanced conductivity, facile electron transfer and abundant active sites. This work may expand the scope of cost-effective electrocatalysts for water splitting.

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