Hefei National Laboratory for Physics Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jan 29;55(10):1442-1445. doi: 10.1039/c8cc08817a.
We explore the role of oxygen vacancies in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for double perovskite PrBaCo2O6-δ. Interestingly, we find that largely increasing oxygen vacancies leads to a significant reduction in the intrinsic OER activity. Structural studies reveal that oxygen vacancies tend to orderly align in PrO1-δ. This ordered structure not only lowers the cobalt oxidation states but also triggers a spin-state transition from high-spin to low-spin states for cobalt ions, both greatly slowing the OER kinetics.
我们探究了双钙钛矿 PrBaCo2O6-δ 中氧空位在氧析出反应(OER)中的作用。有趣的是,我们发现大量增加氧空位会显著降低其本征 OER 活性。结构研究表明,氧空位倾向于在 PrO1-δ 中有序排列。这种有序结构不仅降低了钴的氧化态,还引发了钴离子从高自旋态到低自旋态的自旋态转变,这两个因素都极大地减缓了 OER 动力学。