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Metal Foam Morphology Affects the Run to Run Reproducibility of OER Using Nickel Catalysts

Leah Harnisch-Weidauer, Emilly Cristine de Brito Dorneles, Nich Nearyrat Phalkun, Qingtian Zhong, Yawen Hao, Tu H. Hoang, Lei Wang, Fengwang Li, Thomas Burdyny, Magda H. Barecka

ACS Energy Letters· Volume 11· Issue 6
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Abstract

Nickel (Ni) foam-based electrodes are excellent catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction; however, we found that the random pore-size distribution of Ni foams contributes to a significant variability in electrochemically active surface area, compromising experimental reproducibility. We provide insights into quantifying this critical material property, verified by four electrochemical laboratories.
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Catalysis & surfaces

OpenAlex topics: Catalytic Processes in Materials Science · Nanoporous metals and alloys · Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media

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Affiliations

Department of Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

National University of Singapore

School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

The University of Sydney

Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands

e-Refinery Institute, Delft University of Technology, Leeghwaterstraat 39, 2628 CB Delft, The Netherlands

Centre for Hydrogen Innovations

ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide

Funding

Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy · Australian Research Council · Australian Government

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