Perfect Is Perfect: Nickel Prussian Blue Analogue as A High‐Efficiency Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Peroxide Production
Prussian blue analogues (PBA) are a large family of functional materials with diverse applications such as in electrochemical fields. However, their use in the emerging two-electron oxygen reduction reaction for clean production of hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) is lagging. Herein, a general solvent exchange induced reconstruction strategy is demonstrated, through which an abnormal NiNi-PBA superstructure is synthesized as a high-performance electrocatalyst for H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> generation. The resultant NiNi-PBA superstructure has a stoichiometric composition with saturated lattice water, and a leaf-like morphology composed of interconnected small-size nanosheets with identical orientation and predominate {210} side surface exposure. Our studies show that the Ni-N centers on {210} facets are the active sites, and the saturated lattice H<sub>2</sub>O favors a six-coordinated environment that results in high selectivity. The "perfect" structure including stoichiometric composition and ideal facet exposure leads to a high selectivity of ~100 % and H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> yield of 5.7 mol g<sup>-1</sup> h<sup>-1</sup>, superior to the reported MOF-based electrocatalysts and most other electrocatalysts.
Authors
- Jin Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9435-8043)
- Chengzhong Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-0785)
- Guangfeng Wei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0623-1227)
- Hongyi Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2316-2972)
- Chao Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0316-4994)
- Chaoqi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0357-235X)
- Lei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7398-1124)
- Yitong Xiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7173-1404)
- Yamin Xi
- Tong Bao
- Yingying Zou
Institutions
- Tongji University (CN)
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (CN)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (AU)
- East China Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202413866
- Citations
- 13
- Primary Topic
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.33
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities