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Operando Nanoscale Characterization Reveals Fe Doping of Ni Oxide Enhances Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Fragmentation and Formation of Dual Active Sites

Xile Hu, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Seunghwa Lee, Karla Banjac

Efficient catalytic water splitting demands advanced catalysts to improve the slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Earth-abundant transition metal oxides show promising OER activity in alkaline media. However, most experimental information ...

2025

High entropy molybdate-derived FeOOH catalyzes oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media

Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

High-entropy materials are a new class of materials that have lately been developed and applied to a variety of potential fields. Here we present that electrochemical activation facilitates the application of high-entropy molybdates (HEMo) as oxygen evolut ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Operando identification of a side-on nickel superoxide intermediate and the mechanism of oxygen evolution on nickel oxyhydroxide

Xile Hu, Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key electrochemical reac-tion relevant to energy storage. Ni-containing bimetallic oxyhydrox-ides are among the most active OER catalysts in alkaline medium, but the mechanism of OER on pure Ni oxyhydroxide remains ...

ELSEVIER2023

Synergistic interactions between PtRu catalyst and nitrogen-doped carbon support boost hydrogen oxidation

Xile Hu, Andreas Schueler, Jeremy Luterbacher, Anna Krammer, Songlan Sun, Miyeon Chang, Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee, Weiyan Ni, Seongmin Jin

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) is a potentially cost-effective energy conversion technology. However, current state-of-the-art HEMFCs require a high loading of platinum-group-metal (PGM) catalysts, especially for the hydrogen oxidation react ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Enhancement of electrocatalytic oxygen evolution by chiral molecular functionalization of hybrid 2D electrodes

Xile Hu, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang, Seunghwa Lee, Karla Banjac

While solar-to-fuel catalysis requires the careful transfer of electrons, there are still challenges understanding how electron spin contributes to reactivity. Here, authors employ chiral fused thiadiazole-helicenes to control spin polarization in oxygen e ...

Nature Portfolio2022

An efficient nickel hydrogen oxidation catalyst for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

Xile Hu, Andreas Schueler, Jeremy Luterbacher, Anna Krammer, Liang Yao, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Seunghwa Lee, Weiyan Ni

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising as an energy conversion technology, but require platinum group metal electrocatalysts for their application. A Ni-based hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst is now shown to exhibit unprecedented electroc ...

2022

Tracking high-valent surface iron species in the oxygen evolution reaction on cobalt iron (oxy)hydroxides

Xile Hu, Seunghwa Lee, Aliki Moysiadou

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the bottleneck reaction of water splitting, which can be used to generate green hydrogen from renewable electricity. Cobalt iron oxyhydroxides (CoFeOxHy) are among the most active OER catalysts in alkaline medium. How ...

2022

Spectroscopic and Electrokinetic Evidence for a Bifunctional Mechanism of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction**

Xile Hu, Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

A bifunctional oxygen evolution reaction (OER) mechanism, in which the energetically demanding step of the attack of hydroxide on a metal oxo unit is facilitated by a hydrogen atom transfer to a second site, has the potential to circumvent the scaling rela ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Mechanism of Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxyhydroxide: Cobalt Superoxide Species as a Key Intermediate and Dioxygen Release as a Rate-Determining Step

Xile Hu, Seunghwa Lee, Aliki Moysiadou

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the performance-limiting half reaction of water splitting, which can be used to produce hydrogen fuel using renewable energies. Whereas a number of transition metal oxides and oxyhydroxides have been developed as prom ...

2020

Deciphering Iron-Dependent Activity in Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Nickel-Iron Layered Double Hydroxide

Xile Hu, Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

Nickel iron oxyhydroxide is the benchmark catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline medium. Whereas the presence of Fe ions is essential to the high activity, the functions of Fe are currently under debate. Using oxygen isotope labeling ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020