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The Effect of Li x Ni2-x O2/Ni with Modification Method on Activity and Durability of Alkaline Water Electrolysis Anode

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Water electrolysis requires durability during a fluctuating power supply in power-to-gas application with renewable energies. The previously developed lithiated NiO modified Ni (Li x Ni2-x O2/Ni) has a high catalytic activity and durability during potential cycling, whereas the relatively high surface oxide resistance due to preparation of the oxidation at high temperature with a LiOH coating. In order to improve the catalytic activity, we proposed optimization of the oxide layer by thermal decomposition with various precursor coatings. The oxide layers prepared with acetate and nitrate precursors were dense and porous, respectively. The initial activity obtained from the acetate precursor electrode was higher than that of the nitrate precursor and the oxidation with the LiOH coating. Although the nitrate precursor electrode suffered from the same degradation as the Ni anode during potential cycling, the activity of the acetate precursor electrode as well as the oxidized electrode with the LiOH coating increased, and the activity for the former was almost the same as the initial Ni anode after 20,000 cycles. The lower preparation temperature of the acetate precursor would suppress the formation of the electron resistive nickel oxide between the base nickel and lithiated NiO, which was observed for the oxidized electrode with the LiOH coating as well. While the double-layer capacitance and redox peak around 1.3 V vs. RHE of the Ni and the nitrate precursor electrode significantly increased with Ni(IV) formation during potential cycling, those of the acetate precursor electrode slightly increased without any Ni(IV) formation. Therefore, the dense Li x Ni2-x O2 prepared with acetate has a good electric conductivity and catalytic activity with a high durability during potential cycling as the anode of an alkaline water electrolyzer for renewable power sources.

As a new oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst on a nickel substrate, thermal decomposition coating of lithiated nickel oxide with acetate precursor has a high OER current density with good durability under potential cycling, because the coating was more dense than the nitrate precursor coating, and thinner and had a lower resistance than the high temperature oxidation treatment with the LiOH melt.

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The Institute of Advanced Sciences (IAS) in YNU is supported by the MEXT Program for Promoting the Reform of National Universities. We appreciate all persons involved in this study.

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  1. Green Hydrogen Research Center, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Sho Fujita & Shigenori Mitsushima

  2. Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., 1-1 Kawasaki-cho, Akashi, 673-8666, Japan

    Ikuo Nagashima

  3. De Nora Permelec Ltd, 2023-15 Endo, Fujisawa, 252-0816, Japan

    Yoshinori Nishiki

  4. IC2MP UMR 7285 CNRS Université de Poitiers, 4, rue Michel Brunet B27, TSA 51106, 86073, Poitiers Cedex 9, France

    Christine Canaff & Teko W. Napporn

  5. Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Teko W. Napporn & Shigenori Mitsushima

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Fujita, S., Nagashima, I., Nishiki, Y. et al. The Effect of Li x Ni2-x O2/Ni with Modification Method on Activity and Durability of Alkaline Water Electrolysis Anode. Electrocatalysis 9, 162–171 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12678-017-0439-x

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