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Driving the Oxygen Evolution Reaction by Nonlinear Cooperativity in Bimetallic Coordination Catalysts

Wurster, Benjamin
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Grumelli, Doris
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Hoetger, Diana
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2016
Journal Of The American Chemical Society

Developing efficient catalysts for electrolysis, in particular for the oxygen evolution in the anodic half cell reaction, is an important challenge in energy conversion technologies. By taking inspiration from the catalytic properties of single-atom catalysts and metallo-proteins, we exploit the potential of metal organic networks as electrocatalysts in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). A dramatic enhancement of the catalytic activity toward the production of oxygen by nearly 2 orders of magnitude is demonstrated for novel hetero-bimetallic organic catalysts compared to metallo-porphyrins. Using a supramolecular approach we deliberately place single iron and cobalt atoms in either of two different coordination environments and observe a highly nonlinear increase in the catalytic activity depending on the coordination spheres of Fe and Co. Catalysis sets in at about 300 mV overpotential with high turnover frequencies that outperform other metal organic catalysts like the prototypical hangman porphyrins.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/jacs.5b10484
Web of Science ID

WOS:000372854200002

Author(s)
Wurster, Benjamin
Grumelli, Doris
Hoetger, Diana
Gutzler, Rico
Kern, Klaus  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
Volume

138

Issue

11

Start page

3623

End page

3626

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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LSEN  
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July 19, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/127399
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