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- The development of green fuel from water splitting is crucial for future generations, but the scarcity of fresh water poses a significant challenge.
- Current electrolyzer techniques cannot directly use seawater due to corrosion issues and the need for single atom catalysts has historically involved harsh chemical processes.
- A new cobalt-based electrocatalyst, synthesized from waste orange peel, demonstrates high efficiency in oxygen evolution reactions and can successfully operate in desalinated seawater, showing 15 times more activity than commercial counterparts.
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Green fuel from water splitting is hardcore for future generations, and the limited source of fresh water (<1%) is a bottleneck. Seawater cannot be used directly as a feedstock in current electrolyzer techniques. Until now single atom catalysts were reported by many synthetic strategies using notorious chemicals and harsh conditions. A cobalt single-atom (CoSA) intruding cobalt oxide ultrasmall nanoparticle (Co O USNP)-intercalated porous carbon (PC) (CoSA-Co O @PC) electrocatalyst was synthesized from the waste orange peel as a single feedstock (solvent/template). The extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS) and theoretical fitting reveal a clear picture of the coordination environment of the CoSA sites (CoSA-Co O and CoSA-N in PC). To impede the direct seawater corrosion and chlorine evolution the seawater has been desalinated (Dseawater) with minimal cost and the obtained PC is used as an adsorbent in this process. CoSA-Co O @PC shows high oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity in transitional metal impurity-free (TMIF) 1 M KOH and alkaline Dseawater. CoSA-Co O @PC exhibits mass activity that is 15 times higher than the commercial RuO . Theoretical interpretations suggest that the optimized CoSA sites in Co O USNPs reduce the energy barrier for alkaline water dissociation and simultaneously trigger an excellent OER followed by an adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM).
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