Oxygen-vacancy-rich TiO_(2)enables highly active and durable water electrolysis of urchin-like RuO_(2)catalyst

摘要

The material innovation is prerequisite to accelerating sluggish oxygen evolution reaction(OER)kinetics,thus promoting the realization of hydrogen energy community.Herein,we develop an oxygen-vacancy-rich TiO_(2)supported RuO_(2)catalyst(RuO_(2)@r-TiO_(2))towards improved OER activity and stability.The oxygen vacancy on TiO_(2)not only supplies electrons to produce lower valence Ru,but also provides sufficient anchoring site for the deposition of RuO_(2)nanocrystal.Beyond that,it can generate strong electronic interaction between TiO_(2)and supported RuO_(2),and thereby tailors the intermediates’adsorption energy on the RuO_(2)surface.As a result,the derived RuO_(2)@r-TiO_(2)catalyst exhibits superior OER activity and stability with the overpotential of 211 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm^(−2)and negligible activity degradation after 6 h operation,outperforming the non-oxygen-vacancy counterpart(223.3 mV,12.75%activity loss)and RuO_(2)catalyst(234.6 mV,42.86%activity loss).