journal article·2025-08Open access

Dynamic Reconstruction of Ce‐Doped Fe2P/NiCoP Hybrid for Ampere‐Level Oxygen Evolution in Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis

Fan Zhang, Ke Wang, Hui Zhang, Shiliu Yang, Mai Xu, Yi He, Lecheng Lei, Pengfei Xie, Xingwang Zhang

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 35· Issue 31

Abstract

Abstract The sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) critically limit the efficiency of anion exchange membrane water electrolysis (AEMWE). Herein, a Ce‐doped bimetallic Fe2P/NiCoP hybrid pre‐catalyst that undergoes dynamic reconstruction to activate a highly efficient OER pathway is designed. The optimized Ce0.1‐Fe2P/NiCoP exhibits an impressively low overpotential of 280 mV at 0.5 A cm−2 and a small Tafel slope of 55.3 mV dec−1 in a 1.0 M KOH. Remarkably, when integrated as the anode in an AEMWE electrolyzer, it delivers a low cell voltage of 1.812 V at 1.0 A cm−2 and maintains stable performance for over 500 h at 60 °C. In situ characterizations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that Ce‐doping enhances surface reconstruction and modulates the electronic structure, thereby reducing energy barriers for intermediates (ΔG*OH and ΔG*OOH) formation and accelerating OER kinetics. This work introduces a novel strategy to utilize catalyst reconstruction, advancing their applications in AEMWE systems.
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OpenAlex topics: Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion · Fuel Cells and Related Materials · Advanced battery technologies research

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Affiliations

New Energy Materials and Technology Research Center Anhui Engineering Research Center for Photoelectrocatalytic Electrode Materials School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering Huainan Normal University Huainan 232038 P. R. China

Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China

Institute of Zhejiang University‐Quzhou Quzhou 324000 P. R. China

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province · National Natural Science Foundation of China

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