Abstract

Oxygen vacancies (Ovac) can improve electrocatalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) process but remain a great challenge. Herein, we report a facile two-step approach to synthesizing La-doped CoOx nanosheets (NSs) with abundant oxygen vacancies by a La-triggered effect. Profiting from enriched Ovac and fast charge transfer, La-doped CoOx NSs deliver a remarkably high OER activity with a low overpotential of 353 mV at 10.0 mA cm−2 and a Tafel slope of 78.2 mV dec−1, surpassing those of initial CoOx, IrO2, and most reported non-noble metal based electrocatalysts. In addition, they also exhibit superior durability with only slight degradation after continuous operation of 35 h in a 0.1 M KOH solution. Undoubtedly, the results inspire the use of La into the oxygen vacancies to explore highly active catalysts for various applications.

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