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- The research focuses on discovering new high-entropy electrocatalysts through high-throughput screening of thin-film material libraries, which allows the testing of numerous compositions efficiently.
- The study confirms that results from these thin films can be effectively transferred to particulate catalysts, specifically demonstrating this with the Cantor alloy oxide (Co-Cr-Fe-Mn-Ni)O.
- The identified best-performing composition from the screening, (CrMnFeCoNi)O, showed successful synthesis in particle form and maintained similar effectiveness for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), validating the approach for faster catalyst discovery.
Article Abstract
Discovery of new high-entropy electrocatalysts requires testing of hundreds to thousands of possible compositions, which can be addressed most efficiently by high-throughput experimentation on thin-film material libraries. Since the conditions for high-throughput measurements ("screening") differ from more standardized methods, it is frequently a concern whether the findings from screening can be transferred to the commonly used particulate catalysts. We demonstrate the successful transfer of results from thin-film material libraries to particles of Cantor alloy oxide (Co-Cr-Fe-Mn-Ni)O. The chemical compositions of the libraries, all single-phase spinels, cover a wide compositional range of (CrMnFeCoNi)O, with composition-dependent lattice constant values ranging from 0.826 to 0.851 nm. Electrochemical screening of the libraries for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) identifies (CrMnFeCoNi)O as the most active composition, exhibiting an overpotential of 0.36 V at a current density of 1 mA cm. This "hit" in the library was subsequently synthesized in the form of particles with the same composition and crystal structure using an aerosol-based synthesis strategy. The similar OER activity of the most active thin-film composition and the derived catalyst particles validates the proposed approach of accelerated discovery of novel catalysts by screening of thin-film libraries.
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