Recent advances in cobalt based heterogeneous catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

[Display omitted] •Cobalt is an effective catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER).•Noble metals with cobalt show high OER activity and durability in a wide pH range.•Carbon with cobalt enhances conductivity and OER electrochemical performance.•A catalyst with commercial scale OER activity and d...

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Published in:	Inorganica Chimica Acta Vol. 511; p. 119854
Main Authors:	Badruzzaman, Afreenuzzaman, Yuda, Afdhal, Ashok, Anchu, Kumar, Anand
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01-10-2020 Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:	Catalysts Clean energy Cobalt Cobalt catalysts Electrocatalysts Electrolysis Electrolytic cells Hydrogen evolution reactions Metals Mixed oxides Noble metals Oxygen evolution reaction Oxygen evolution reactions Perovskites Phosphides Photovoltaic cells Renewable energy sources Solar cells Transition metals Water oxidation Wind turbines 3DGN ITO NBGHSs XAS HNS PBA DFT EDS ML ICP-AES PBS PNSAs/CFC FBNW SWCNTs Water oxidation Cobalt catalysts DOS TOF NPCNTs np-HEA LSV EIS DETA TEOS Electrolysis NC ND NF SEM CNF MWCNTs PCP OER FTO RCT NP NW NHE ECSA RHE ORR OBA RDC LDH ONS CNTs KB XPS rGO GC XAFS N-csCNT-GNR HNTAs-NF RDS CC HEA MOF FESEM GO NrGO CCH Oxygen evolution reaction BET CCS CV PC HER ZIF mMWCNT ALD HNB TEM CCHH
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Summary:	[Display omitted] •Cobalt is an effective catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER).•Noble metals with cobalt show high OER activity and durability in a wide pH range.•Carbon with cobalt enhances conductivity and OER electrochemical performance.•A catalyst with commercial scale OER activity and durability is still challenging. The future of the world energy lies in clean and renewable energy sources. Many technologies, such as solar cells, wind turbines, etc., have been developed to harness renewable energies in different forms of fuel. Amongst them, electrolysis of water to produce oxygen and hydrogen is one of the paramount developments towards achieving clean energy, which has attained significant attention due to its green and simple method for the production of fuels. In electrolysis of water, the half-reaction containing the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a reaction that is kinetically sluggish, which requires higher overpotential to produce O2, when compared to the other half-reaction, i.e. hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Many electrocatalysts are studied extensively to be used in the OER process to get an economical yield out of it. Noble metal-based catalysts are the state-of-the-art catalyst used for OER currently. But due to their high cost and scarcity, they cannot be applied in a large-scale manner to be used in the future. The non-noble metals (transition metals and perovskites) are gaining interest by exhibiting on par or better OER performance compared to the noble metal used. Due to their low cost, ample resources, and several metals available, they have opened up a variety of areas with a different combination of metals to be used as a catalyst for OER. Amongst these metals, cobalt has received massive appreciation for performing as an excellent OER catalyst. Multi metals, multimetal mixed oxides, multimetal phosphides, perovskites, and carbon-supported catalysts containing cobalt have shown low overpotential with high long-term stability. Therefore, in this review, we go through different cobalt-based electrocatalysts for OER, the general mechanism governing the OER process, the challenges that we are facing today to enhance the catalytic performance, and future aspects to overcome such challenges.
ISSN:	0020-1693 1873-3255
DOI:	10.1016/j.ica.2020.119854