Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference (MATSUS24)
Publication date: 18th December 2023
In light of the pressing concerns surrounding fossil fuel depletion and the environmental crisis, the urgent need to develop highly efficient, low-cost energy sources. Among the various research avenues, water electrolysis has emerged as a promising method for generation of green hydrogen—environmentally friendly alternative source. However, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at anodic electrode might limit practical application of this technology due to its sluggish kinetics. Therefore, the significant efforts have been devoted to develop efficient OER electrocatalysts to reduce overpotential. In this study, we introduce the new approach in the synthesis of OER electrochemical catalyst through inserting an organo-metallic complexes of 1,10-Phenanthroline (Phen) and Ni, Co and Fe in montmorillonite (MMT) clay layers. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analyses confirmed successful insertion of the organo-metallic complexes into the MMT clay layers with the increase of interlayer distance. The application of as-prepared samples for OER shows that MMT:Co(Phen)2 exhibits the highest OER performance with the overpotential of 313 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm-2 and long-term stability for over 50 hours. These promising results shed up the new approach in application of organo-metallic complexes in the synthesis of advanced electrocatalysts for the OER.
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