It has become a challenge to further enhance the electrocatalytic
performance of perovskite oxides due to their limited active surface
area. Herein, we propose a top-down strategy for the amorphization
of crystalline LaCoO3 nanopowders with significantly enhanced
specific surface area and electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction
(OER) activity and durability, in which the overpotential at the current
density of 10 mA cm–2 reduced from 405 to 293 mV,
and the Tafel slope decreased from 96.6 to 63.4 mV dec–1. This work provides an effective method for the property optimization
of nanometer perovskite oxides and the design of high-performance
electrocatalysts.
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