Exceeding the volcano relationship in oxygen reduction/evolution reactions using single-atom-based catalysts with dual-active-sites

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Abstract
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 ΔGOOH = ΔGOH + 2.41 eV) that crosses the region of optimal limiting potentials in the volcano plot of the ORR are associated with our dual-active-site designs. This novel strategy of breaking the volcano dependence with dual-active-sites in SACs may promote the development of efficient electrocatalysts for the ORR/OER and other chemical reactions.
Funding Information
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (21633006, 21503208, 61705097)
  • Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (1908085QB57)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB01020000, DNL201913)
  • Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2018YFA0208603, 2017YFA0303500)

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