Dynamic Amorphous Composite Shells on 3D Printed High‐Entropy Alloy Enable Stable and Active High‐Rate Seawater Oxidation
The corrosive chloride (Cl<sup>-</sup>) in seawater challenges anode stability and compromises the efficiency of oxygen evolution reaction (OER), posing a barrier to high-rate seawater electrolysis. Herein, selective laser melting (SLM) 3D printing of a high-entropy NiFeCoCrMn alloy is combined with a 200 s mild anodic acid etching/reprecipitation, to form amorphous hydroxide-oxide composites on the printed scaffold (a-SLMH). The grain-boundary-free amorphous shells undergo dynamic in situ reconstruction into active NiFeCo oxyhydroxides, while immobilizing Mn/Cr oxides to suppress Cl<sup>-</sup> attack during OER, as revealed by in situ Raman spectroscopy and ex situ microstructural characterizations. In 1 M KOH + 0.5 M NaCl, the a-SLMH exhibits leading seawater oxidation performances, such as reaching 500 and 1000 mA cm<sup>-2</sup> at low overpotentials of 310 and 328 mV, respectively, and maintaining a 100% O<sub>2</sub> selectivity at 500 mA cm<sup>-2</sup>. Critically, the electrode operates stably for at least 500 h in alkaline natural seawater at 500 mA cm<sup>-2</sup>, demonstrating its robustness. This work exemplifies that SLM 3D printing coupled with amorphous surface engineering yields durable and active anodes for high-rate seawater OER.
Authors
- Guanhua Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5707-5017)
- HaiDeng Wang
- Gongming Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0453-4002)
- Tianyi Kou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1563-7819)
- Zhonghua Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-4459)
- Ke Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-4655)
- Denghui Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8452-5925)
- Wei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8053-2800)
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Shandong University (CN)
- Suzhou Research Institute (CN)
- Shandong Food Fermentation Industry Research and Design Institute (CN)
- Weihai Science and Technology Bureau (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Small Methods
- Published
- 2025-11-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202501777
- Primary Topic
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Shandong University
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province