Exceeding the Volcano Relationship in Oxygen Reduction/Evolution Reactions using Single-atom-based Catalysts with Dual-active-sites
2020
Finding cost-effective catalysts to drive oxygen reduction/evolution reactions (ORR/OER) is a highly attractive goal. Most catalysts follow a volcano relationship of performance, making it difficult to search thoroughly enough among the huge number of possible structures to reach the volcano apex. Using first-principles simulations, we demonstrated that the design of single-atom-based catalysts (SACs) incorporating dual-active-sites breaks the universal scaling relationship between *OOH and *OH adsorption, leading to performances superior to those constrained to follow the volcano plot. Both a linear OER activity trend that reaches an ideal 0 V overpotential and a new linear scaling relation (free energy difference ΔG(OOH)=ΔG(OH) + 2.41 eV) that crosses the region of optimal limiting potentials in the volcano plot of the ORR are associated with our dual-active-sites designs. This novel strategy of breaking the volcano dependence with dual-active-sites in SACs may promote the development of efficient electrocatalysts for ORR/OER and other chemical reactions.
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