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A Low-Temperature Molecular Precursor Approach to Copper-Based Nano-Sized Digenite Mineral for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction.


ABSTRACT: In the urge of designing noble metal-free and sustainable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), herein, a mineral Digenite Cu9 S5 has been prepared from a molecular copper(I) precursor, [{(PyHS)2 CuI (PyHS)}2 ](OTf)2 (1), and utilized as an anode material in electrocatalytic OER for the first time. A hot injection of 1 yielded a pure phase and highly crystalline Cu9 S5 , which was then electrophoretically deposited (EPD) on a highly conducting nickel foam (NF) substrate. When assessed as an electrode for OER, the Cu9 S5 /NF displayed an overpotential of merely 298±3?mV at a current density of 10?mA?cm-2 in alkaline media. The overpotential recorded here supersedes the value obtained for the best reported Cu-based as well as the benchmark precious-metal-based RuO2 and IrO2 electrocatalysts. In addition, the choronoamperometric OER indicated the superior stability of Cu9 S5 /NF, rendering its suitability as the sustainable anode material for practical feasibility. The excellent catalytic activity of Cu9 S5 can be attributed to the formation of a crystalline CuO overlayer on the conductive Cu9 S5 that behaves as active species to facilitate OER. This study delivers a distinct molecular precursor approach to produce highly active copper-based catalysts that could be used as an efficient and durable OER electro(pre)catalysts relying on non-precious metals.

SUBMITTER: Chakraborty B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7155036 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Low-Temperature Molecular Precursor Approach to Copper-Based Nano-Sized Digenite Mineral for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

Chakraborty Biswarup B   Kalra Shweta S   Beltrán-Suito Rodrigo R   Das Chittaranjan C   Hellmann Tim T   Menezes Prashanth W PW   Driess Matthias M  

Chemistry, an Asian journal 20200220 6


In the urge of designing noble metal-free and sustainable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), herein, a mineral Digenite Cu<sub>9</sub> S<sub>5</sub> has been prepared from a molecular copper(I) precursor, [{(PyHS)<sub>2</sub> Cu<sup>I</sup> (PyHS)}<sub>2</sub> ](OTf)<sub>2</sub> (1), and utilized as an anode material in electrocatalytic OER for the first time. A hot injection of 1 yielded a pure phase and highly crystalline Cu<sub>9</sub> S<sub>5</sub> , which was then electro  ...[more]

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