Rationality in the new oxygen evolution catalyst development
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Petr Krtil; Jan Rossmeisl; Rebecca K. Pittkowski
- Source
- Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
- Subject
- Materials science
Hydrogen
Electrolysis of water
business.industry
Oxygen evolution
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Electrochemistry
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
Energy storage
0104 chemical sciences
Analytical Chemistry
Catalysis
Renewable energy
chemistry
electrocatalysis, oxygen evolution catalyst design
0210 nano-technology
Process engineering
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2451-9103
Summary Anodic oxygen evolution has gained significant prominence in electrochemical research in the last decade in connection with renewable electricity storage. With water being the only available fossil free source of hydrogen, which is deemed the primary storage medium, the water electrolysis optimization is one of the biggest challenges of today's electrochemistry. A development of novel oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is motivated to increase the feasibility of the current OER catalysts in terms of activity, stability and price. This review summarizes the most recent synthetic approaches in OER catalyst synthesis for acid and alkaline electrolyzers stressing the structural aspects of the proposed catalysts. The reported novel catalyst approaches are aligned with existing theoretical and experiment-based descriptors for rational of oxygen evolution activity improvement.