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    Duan, Yu; Yu, Zi‐You; Hu, Shao‐Jin; Zheng, Xu‐Sheng; Zhang, Chu‐Tian; Ding, Hong‐He; Hu, Bi‐Cheng; Fu, Qi‐Qi; Yu, Zhi‐Long; Zheng, Xiao; Zhu, Jun‐Fa; Gao, Min‐Rui; Yu, Shu‐Hong

    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, October 28, 2019, Letnik: 58, Številka: 44
    Journal Article

    The anode oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is known to largely limit the efficiency of electrolyzers owing to its sluggish kinetics. While crystalline metal oxides are promising as OER catalysts, their amorphous phases also show high activities. Efforts to produce amorphous metal oxides have progressed slowly, and how an amorphous structure benefits the catalytic performances remains elusive. Now the first scalable synthesis of amorphous NiFeMo oxide (up to 515 g in one batch) is presented with homogeneous elemental distribution via a facile supersaturated co‐precipitation method. In contrast to its crystalline counterpart, amorphous NiFeMo oxide undergoes a faster surface self‐reconstruction process during OER, forming a metal oxy(hydroxide) active layer with rich oxygen vacancies, leading to superior OER activity (280 mV overpotential at 10 mA cm−2 in 0.1 m KOH). This opens up the potential of fast, facile, and scale‐up production of amorphous metal oxides for high‐performance OER catalysts. Amorphous NiFeMo oxide (up to 515 g one batch) with homogeneous elemental distribution was synthesized through a facile supersaturated co‐precipitation method. The amorphous NiFeMo oxide undergoes rapid surface self‐reconstruction during OER that forms a metal oxy(hydroxide) active layer with oxygen vacancies, enabling efficient OER catalysis.