Oxygen Defect Engineering Promotes Synergy Between Adsorbate Evolution and Single Lattice Oxygen Mechanisms of OER in Transition Metal‐Based (oxy)Hydroxide

Abstract The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity of transition metal (TM)‐based (oxy)hydroxide is dominated by the number and nature of surface active sites, which are generally considered to be TM atoms occupying less than half of surface sites, with most being inactive oxygen atoms. Herein, based on an in situ competing growth strategy of bimetallic ions and OH − ions, a facile one‐step method is proposed to modulate oxygen defects in NiFe‐layered double hydroxide (NiFe‐LDH)/FeOOH heterostructure, which may trigger the single lattice oxygen mechanism (sLOM). Interestingly, by only varying the addition of H 2 O 2 , one can simultaneously regulate the concentration of oxygen defects, the valence of metal…

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  National Natural Science Foundation of China

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