Amorphous FeOOH Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalyst for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 136; no. 7; pp. 2843 - 2850
• Main Authors: Chemelewski, William D, Lee, Heung-Chan, Lin, Jung-Fu, Bard, Allen J, Mullins, C. Buddie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 19.02.2014
• Subjects: catalysts; energy; hydrogen; iron oxyhydroxides; oxygen production; photons; photovoltaic cells; silicon; sodium carbonate

Reaching the goal of economical photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting will likely require the combination of efficient solar absorbers with high activity electrocatalysts for the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER). Toward this goal, we synthesized an amorphous FeOOH (a-FeOOH)...