Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters
The ligand effects of atomically precise metal nanoclusters on electrocatalysis kinetics have been rarely revealed. Herein, we employ atomically precise Au25 nanoclusters with different ligands (i.e., para-mercaptobenzoic acid, 6-mercaptohexanoic acid, and homocysteine) as paradigm electrocatalysts...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1697562023-08-07T15:35:06Z Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters Liu, Zhihe Tan, Hua Li, Bo Hu, Zehua Jiang, De-en Yao, Qiaofeng Wang, Lei Xie, Jianping School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Science::Physics Ligand Electron Transport The ligand effects of atomically precise metal nanoclusters on electrocatalysis kinetics have been rarely revealed. Herein, we employ atomically precise Au25 nanoclusters with different ligands (i.e., para-mercaptobenzoic acid, 6-mercaptohexanoic acid, and homocysteine) as paradigm electrocatalysts to demonstrate oxygen evolution reaction rate-determining step switching through ligand engineering. Au25 nanoclusters capped by para-mercaptobenzoic acid exhibit a better performance with nearly 4 times higher than that of Au25 NCs capped by other two ligands. We deduce that para-mercaptobenzoic acid with a stronger electron-withdrawing ability establishes more partial positive charges on Au(I) (i.e., active sites) for facilitating feasible adsorption of OH- in alkaline media. X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy and theoretical study indicate a profound electron transfer from Au(I) to para-mercaptobenzoic acid. The Tafel slope and in situ Raman spectroscopy suggest different ligands trigger different rate-determining step for these Au25 nanoclusters. The mechanistic insights reported here can add to the acceptance of atomically precise metal nanoclusters as effective electrocatalysts. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22071174). The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Education, Singapore, Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Grant No. R-279-000-580-112 and A-8000054-01-00. L.W. would like to thank the support from A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) under its LCERFI program (Award No U2102d2002), and the support by National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore, under NRF Fellowship (NRF-NRFF13-2021-0007). 2023-08-02T02:04:28Z 2023-08-02T02:04:28Z 2023 Journal Article Liu, Z., Tan, H., Li, B., Hu, Z., Jiang, D., Yao, Q., Wang, L. & Xie, J. (2023). Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3374-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38914-7 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169756 10.1038/s41467-023-38914-7 37291124 2-s2.0-85161420326 1 14 3374 en R-279-000-580-112 A-8000054-01-00 Nature Communications © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf |
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The ligand effects of atomically precise metal nanoclusters on electrocatalysis kinetics have been rarely revealed. Herein, we employ atomically precise Au25 nanoclusters with different ligands (i.e., para-mercaptobenzoic acid, 6-mercaptohexanoic acid, and homocysteine) as paradigm electrocatalysts to demonstrate oxygen evolution reaction rate-determining step switching through ligand engineering. Au25 nanoclusters capped by para-mercaptobenzoic acid exhibit a better performance with nearly 4 times higher than that of Au25 NCs capped by other two ligands. We deduce that para-mercaptobenzoic acid with a stronger electron-withdrawing ability establishes more partial positive charges on Au(I) (i.e., active sites) for facilitating feasible adsorption of OH- in alkaline media. X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy and theoretical study indicate a profound electron transfer from Au(I) to para-mercaptobenzoic acid. The Tafel slope and in situ Raman spectroscopy suggest different ligands trigger different rate-determining step for these Au25 nanoclusters. The mechanistic insights reported here can add to the acceptance of atomically precise metal nanoclusters as effective electrocatalysts. |
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