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Hydrangea flower-like nanostructure of dysprosium-doped Fe-MOF for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction

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Developing catalysts with high intrinsic activity toward oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has paramount importance to meet the ever-increasing quest for sustainability demands for green energy solutions but challenging. Herein, a one-step synthesized hydrangea flower-like metal-organic framework (MOF) by dysprosium (Dy)-doped Fe-MOF is reported (Dy0.05Fe-MOF/NF). Impressively, the obtained electrocatalyst possesses optimal OER intrinsic activity, showing a low overpotential of 258 mV at 100 mA·cm−2, superior to the capability of the noble metal RuO2. In addition, an overpotential of 318 mV is needed for Dy0.05Fe-MOF/NF to drive 500 mA·cm−2. The remarkable performance of Dy0.05Fe-MOF/NF can be explained by the surface-active electron density modulation of Fe sites, because the doping of Dy with a lower electronegativity than doping of Fe could donate electrons to the neighboring Fe atoms, resulting in profoundly improved OER performance. Beyond that, this work not only offers a perspective to understand the OER mechanism of rare earth doping, but also guides us to design more ideal electrocatalyst and beyond.

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为了满足对可持续性绿色能源解决方案需求的日益增长, 开发具有高活性的析氧反应 (OER) 催化剂具有极其重要的意义, 且存在挑战性。本文通过一步合成法, 制备了镝(Dy)掺杂Fe-MOF的绣球花状MOFs (Dy0.05Fe-MOF/NF)。该材料在100 mA·cm-2下, 过电位仅为258 mV, 优于贵金属RuO2, 仅需318 mV的过电位即可达到500 mA·cm-2。Dy0.05Fe-MOF/NF优异的电催化性能可以归因于Dy掺杂对材料表面活性位点(Fe) 的电子密度的调整。相比于Fe, Dy具有更低的电负性, 能将更多的电子提供给邻近的Fe原子, 从而改善了Fe基材料的OER活性。此外, 这项工作不仅能帮助我们理解稀土掺杂OER催化剂的工作机理, 也将有望指导我们设计出更理想的OER电催化剂。

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Ma, Y., Mu, GM., Miao, YJ. et al. Hydrangea flower-like nanostructure of dysprosium-doped Fe-MOF for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction. Rare Met. 41, 844–850 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-021-01851-9

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