SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CATALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF IRON BASED NANO-CATALYTS FOR WATER OXIDATION REACTION

2022-2-11
KOCABAŞ, SERRA
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The search for new energy storage technologies drew attention to the production of hydrogen from clean, renewable sources such as water with increase of scarcity of fossil fuels. Hence, water splitting electrochemically has been the centre of attention in recent years. However, water oxidation (oxygen evolution) (OER) reaction requires high potential to achieve large energy barrier occurred while transferring four electrons and four protons. To overcome this energy barrier, catalyst with high stability and activity can be used. For this, the earth-abundant metal oxide nanoparticles with high surface area and large numbers of active sites have gained great attention in literature. This thesis study aims to synthesize chromium-iron based metal oxide nanoparticles and to characterize synthesized nanomaterials via Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometry (XPS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), X-Ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDX) and Brunauer-Teller-Emmett Isotherm (BET) techniques. The microscopy results showed that CrFeO 3 nanowires were formed by assembly of ca. 14 nm nanocrystallites. Electrocatalytic investigation of vthe OER catalyst were studied in alkaline medium. To compare the activity of the nanocatalyst, benchmark RuO 2 used. CrFeO 3 -FTO nanowires presented promising electrocatalytic performance with an onset potential of 1.63 V vs RHE at where RuO 2 had an onset potential of 1.47 V vs RHE, overpotential of 737 mV at 10 mA cm -2 current density and Tafel slope of 57 mV dec -1 . As a result, CrFeO 3 nanomaterial was observed as comparable to that of RuO 2 and better than some iron-based metal oxide nanoparticles.
Metal Oxide Nanoparticles, Nanocatalyst, Electrochemical Water Splitting, Oxygen Evolution Reaction
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96386
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. KOCABAŞ, “SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CATALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF IRON BASED NANO-CATALYTS FOR WATER OXIDATION REACTION,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.
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