Facet Engineering of Advanced Electrocatalysts Toward Hydrogen/Oxygen Evolution Reactions

Changshui Wang; Qian Zhang; Bing Yan; Bo You; Jiaojiao Zheng; Li Feng; Chunmei Zhang; Shaohua Jiang; Wei Chen; Shuijian He

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01024-6

Facet Engineering of Advanced Electrocatalysts Toward Hydrogen/Oxygen Evolution Reactions

Nanomicro Lett. 2023 Feb 16;15(1):52. doi: 10.1007/s40820-023-01024-6.

Authors

Changshui Wang¹, Qian Zhang², Bing Yan¹, Bo You³, Jiaojiao Zheng¹, Li Feng¹, Chunmei Zhang⁴, Shaohua Jiang¹, Wei Chen^{5

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Affiliations

¹ International Innovation Center for Forest Chemicals and Materials, Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, People's Republic of China.
² International Innovation Center for Forest Chemicals and Materials, Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, People's Republic of China. zhangqian5689@njfu.edu.cn.
³ Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China. youbo@hust.edu.cn.
⁴ Institute of Materials Science and Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 2150009, People's Republic of China.
⁵ Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, People's Republic of China. weichen@ciac.ac.cn.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, People's Republic of China. weichen@ciac.ac.cn.
⁷ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China. weichen@ciac.ac.cn.
⁸ International Innovation Center for Forest Chemicals and Materials, Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, People's Republic of China. shuijianhe@njfu.edu.cn.

Abstract

The crystal facets featured with facet-dependent physical and chemical properties can exhibit varied electrocatalytic activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) attributed to their anisotropy.
The highly active exposed crystal facets enable increased mass activity of active sites, lower reaction energy barriers, and enhanced catalytic reaction rates for HER and OER.
The formation mechanism and control strategy of the crystal facet, significant contributions as well as challenges and perspectives of facet-engineered catalysts for HER and OER are provided.

Keywords: Anisotropy; Crystal facet engineering; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Oxygen evolution reaction; Theoretical simulations.

Publication types

Review