Recent Development and Future Perspectives of Amorphous Transition Metal‐Based Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Abstract Oxygen evolution reaction (OER), as a relevant half reaction for water splitting to address the energy crisis, has captured a great deal of attention. However, this technology has always been impeded by the lack of a highly efficient and stable electrocatalyst. Amorphous materials, which possess long‐range disorder and only short‐range order over a few atoms, are often superior to their crystalline counterparts in electrocatalysis owing to their more active sites, broader chemical composition range, and more structural flexibility. This review first introduces some assessment criteria for the OER and then presents theoretical modeling of the OER mechanisms and the state‐of‐the‐art amorphous transition…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 51872016
• ER
  European Regional Development Fund

  Award: NORTE‐01‐0145‐FEDER‐000019