Metal-doped ruthenium oxides with low prices have gained widespread attention due to their editable compositions, distorted structures, and diverse morphologies for electrocatalysis. However, the mainstream challenge lies in breaking the so-called seesaw relationship between activity and stability during acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, strain wave-featured Mn-RuO nanowires (NWs) with asymmetric Ru-O-Mn bonds are first fabricated by thermally driven rapid solid phase conversion from RuMn alloy nanoparticles (NPs) at moderate temperature (450 °C). In 0.5 M HSO, the resultant NWs display a surprisingly ultralow overpotential of 168 mV at 10 mA cm and run at a stable cell voltage (1.67 V) for 150 h at 50 mA cm in PEMWE, far exceeding IrO||Pt/C assemble. The simultaneous enhancement of both activity and stability stems from the presence of dense strain waves composed of alternating compressive and tensile ones in the distorted NWs, which collaboratively activate the Ru-O-Mn sites for faster OER. More importantly, the atomic strain waves trigger dynamic Ru-O-Mn regeneration via the refilling of oxygen vacancies by oxyanions adsorbed on adjacent Mn and Ru sites, achieving long-term stability. This work opens a door to designing non-precious metal-assisted ruthenium oxides with unique strains for practical application in commercial PEMWE.
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