Enhancement of Oxygen Evolution Activity of Ruddlesden-Popper-Type Strontium Ferrite by Stabilizing Fe4<sup>+</sup> — Oak Academic Publishing
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Enhancement of Oxygen Evolution Activity of Ruddlesden-Popper-Type Strontium Ferrite by Stabilizing Fe4<sup>+</sup>
Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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Special Doctoral Program for Green Energy Conversion Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
1 Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
2 Special Doctoral Program for Green Energy Conversion Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
3 Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
Development of active iron based water oxidation for designing an ideal artificial photosynthesis devices operating under benign neutral pH is highly demanded. We investigated the electrocatalytic activity of Ruddlesden-Pop-per-type strontium ferrite (Sr 3 Fe 2 O 7 ) toward the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Owing to the temperature-dependent efficiency of the charge disproportionation of Fe4 + , the OER activity of Sr 3 Fe 2 O 7 varied with the temperature, and the onset potential for the OER at a neutral pH underwent a negative shift of approximately 200 mV by increasing the temperature for the stabilization of Fe4 + . When metal substitution was made to Sr 3 Fe 2 O 7 for stabilizing Fe4 + at room temperature, the temperature dependence of the OER activity disappeared and the OER was driven at a small overpotential without increasing the temperature, indicating that the stabilization of Fe4 + is substantially important for achieving high OER activity.
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