The sluggish four-electron-transfer kinetics of the oxygen
evolution
reaction (OER) is a great challenge for the development of efficient
and cost-effective OER electrocatalysts. Herein, we report single-atomic
Ir and Mo co-confined in the lattice of a Co layered hydroxide (Co-LH)
nanobox as an efficient OER electrocatalyst via a sacrificial template
method. With the hollow structure and synergetic electronic interactions
among Ir, Mo, and Co-LH, the catalyst delivers an ultralow overpotential
of 220 mV at 10 mA cm–2 and high durability of over
800 h at 50 mA cm–2 in 1 M KOH, which significantly
outperform the commercial Ir black catalyst. Density functional theory
calculations indicate that adjacent Mo and Ir enhance the OER activities
on the Ir sites at defects (defect-Ir) and Mo sites in the plane (in-plane-Mo),
respectively. This study provides not only a highly efficient OER
catalyst but also a strategy for confining dual-active centers with
mutually improved catalytic activities.
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