Functional Role of Fe, Cu-Doping in Ni-Based Perovskite Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Abstract

Water electrolysis is of vital importance to store renewable energy and the development of efficient, inexpensive and stable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is essential, which requires much more understanding of the structural and the element classification. Here, a series of [Formula: see text]Fex[Formula: see text][Formula: see text] perovskites have been assessed as potential noble-metal-free OER electrocatalysts prepared by sol–gel method. Moreover, the functional role of Cu and Fe amount on the B-site of perovskites for OER electrocatalytic performance was evaluated. [Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text] materials exhibited the highest intrinsic activities in 0.1[Formula: see text]M KOH for OER with an onset potential of 1.56[Formula: see text]V, a Tafel slope of 76[Formula: see text]mV[Formula: see text][Formula: see text], slightly lower than that of benchmark perovskite-type electrocatalyst [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]C[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]O3 (BSCF). The above results demonstrate that Cu element in the B-site of perovskites had little effect on the OER performance, and [Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text] is a potential alternative electrocatalyst for OER application.