[en] The perovskite oxide LaNiO3 is a promising oxygen electrocatalyst for renewable energy storage and conversion technologies. Here, it is shown that strontium substitution for lanthanum in coherently strained, epitaxial LaNiO3 films (La1−xSrxNiO3) significantly enhances the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity, resulting in performance at x = 0.5 comparable to the state-of-the-art catalyst Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ. By combining X-ray photoemission and X-ray absorption spectroscopies with density functional theory, it is shown that an upward energy shift of the O 2p band relative to the Fermi level occurs with increasing x in La1−xSrxNiO3. This alloying step strengthens Ni 3d–O 2p hybridization and decreases the charge transfer energy, which in turn accounts for the enhanced OER activity.
Research center :
PhyTheMa
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Physics
Author, co-author :
Liu, Jishan; Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jia, Endong; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Wang, Le; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Stoerzinger, Kelsey A.; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Zhou, Hua; Argonne National Laboratory
Tang, Chi Sin; National University of Singapore
Yin, Xinmao; National University of Singapore
He, Xu; Université de Liège - ULiège
Bousquet, Eric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique théorique des matériaux
Bowden, Mark E.; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Wee, Andrew T. S.; National University of Singapore
Chambers, Scott A.; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Céci facilities funded by F.R.S-FNRS (Grant No. 2.5020.1); Tier-1 supercomputer of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles funded by the Walloon Region (Grant No. 1117545)
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