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Advances in engineering RuO2 electrocatalysts towards oxygen evolution reaction

Cheng Wang ,  Liujun Jin ,  Hongyuan Shang ,  Hui Xu ,  Yukihide Shiraishi ,  Yukou Du

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Citation:  Cheng Wang, Liujun Jin, Hongyuan Shang, Hui Xu, Yukihide Shiraishi, Yukou Du. Advances in engineering RuO2 electrocatalysts towards oxygen evolution reaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, 2021, 32(7): 2108-2116. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.11.051 shu

Advances in engineering RuO2 electrocatalysts towards oxygen evolution reaction

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  • 1. Introduction

    Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a crucial role in energy conversion systems, including metal-air battery, water splitting, CO2 reduction, and so on [1-4]. Essentially, the OER commonly undergoes a four electron and proton transfer process, leading to sluggish reaction kinetics and demanding a higher energy to overcome the kinetic barrier and overpotential [5-8]. In this regard, substantial research efforts have been made to the fabrication of highly efficient OER electrocatalysts with both enhanced reaction kinetics and durability in alkaline media, such as transition metal composites, perovskites, and carbon-based composites [9-19]. Despite these electrocatalysts are highly active and stable in alkaline conditions, they are also kinetic-sluggish and unstable in acidic solution [20-23]. Generally, OER electrocatalysis in acidic solution is more preferable as compared to alkaline media since acidic electrolyte has much higher ionic conductivity [24-26]. To this end, exploring efficient OER electrocatalysts with enhanced kinetic and durability under both alkaline and acidic media is highly appreciated. Among various electrocatalysts, Ru has been widely researched due to its high intrinsic OER activity and relatively lower cost as compared to other precious metals [27, 28]. Currently, rutile-structured Ru and Ir oxides are well known as the two best electrocatalysts for OER in both alkaline and acidic media [29-33]. In the acidic conditions, it is also well known that RuO2 can exhibit much higher catalytic activity than IrO2, while it is unstable because of the formation of soluble RuO 4 at anodic potential. Therefore, tremendous endeavors have been made to the design and development of highly efficient RuO2 catalysts with great success, and many effective strategies have thus been well developed, such as morphology design, electronic structure engineering, defect engineering, enhancing conductivity, and heterostructure engineering [34-40]. Nonetheless, a comprehensive summary on RuO2 electrocatalysts for OER is still lacking.

    Given the great promise of RuO2 for OER and exploring more efficient OER electrocatalysts, we herein focus on the recent advances of RuO2 materials for OER electrocatalysis. First of all, the OER mechanisms in electrolytes under alkaline and acidic media are briefly introduced. Then, the key advantages and aroused challenges of RuO2 for future applications are also highlighted. The sight into the reaction mechanism and nature of superb performance could boost the further development of more efficient RuO2-based electrocatalysts. Subsequently, many advanced strategies for further enhancing the electrocatalytic OER performance of RuO2 from the perspective of geometric morphology design, crystal facet engineering, electronic structure, defect, conductivity, and heterostructure engineering have also been summarized. Lastly, a cross summary of RuO2-based electrocatalysts and future envision are systematically discussed to boost the development and better design of RuO2 electrocatalysts. Through the discussions in this review, we are highly expected to provide some points of view on further promoting the electrocatalytic OER performance of RuO2 and boosting the rapid development of clean energy technologies.

    2. Characterizations of RuO2 catalysts in oxygen evolution reaction

    2.1 Fundamental of oxygen evolution reaction

    Efficient OER plays a crucial role in determining the rate and efficiency of various electrochemical reactions due to the unique four electron transfer process, such as rechargeable metal-air batteries and water splitting [41-46]. The possible reaction mechanisms of OER in alkaline/acidic solutions are illustrated in Scheme 1, and the detailed reaction steps are also descripted as follows:

    Scheme 1

    Scheme 1.  Scheme of the OER mechanism based on RuO2 in wide pH values.
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    Alkaline solutions (reactions 1-6):

    		 (1)

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    		(3)

    		(4)

    		(5)

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    Acidic and neutral solutions (reactions 3, 4, 7–10):

    		 (7)

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    		(3)

    		(4)

    		(9)

    		(10)

    According to the possible reaction mechanisms, it is clearly found that the OH*, O* and OOH* intermediates are generated in sequence [47-56]. In the alkaline conditions, the abundant hydroxyls could effectively boost the generation of OH* and O*. After that, the OER process proceeds the direct combination of O* to form O2 or further generating OOH* to release O2 [16, 57-64]. In contrast, there are no hydroxyls ions in the acidic and neutral solutions, which thus demand additional energy to boost the cleavage of covalent bond of H2O molecule [47, 51, 65-69]. Of note, the electrocatalytic OER activity of a catalyst is governed by the step with the maximum energy barrier, namely, rate-determining step (RDS) [70, 71]. And each step has been demonstrated to exhibit a close relationship in energy barrier, in which the total energy demanded for the transformations from OH* to O* and O* to OOH* are 3.2 eV. Therefore, a catalyst with an equal energy barrier for the processes of OH* to O* and O* to OOH* would require the lowest overpotential for driving OER.

    2.2 Key advantages of RuO2 towards OER

    According to the proposed mechanism, the electrocatalytic OER activity of is correlated with the energy barriers of transformations of OH* to O* and O* to OOH*, in which a catalyst with an equal energy barrier for above two processes could exhibit high kinetics [32, 57, 72]. Bear this consideration into mind, substantial endeavors have been made for realizing the activity promotion of electrocatalysts, and a variety of nonprecious metal-based electrocatalysts have been successfully developed. Despite the numerous efforts devoted, the electrocatalytic OER performance of nonprecious catalysts is still far away from the performance of RuO2-based electrocatalysts. RuO2 is well demonstrated to be the most efficient catalyst with an optimal oxygen binding energy close to the top of volcano plot, which is even surpassing than state-of-the-art IrO2 catalyst. Normally, RuO2 approaches the top of OER volcano plot from the weak oxygen binding branch, and theoretical studies reveal that the enhancements can be realized by slightly increasing the oxygen adsorption of RuO2, namely, promoting the capability of binding oxygen intermediates [73, 74]. Apart from the higher activity than IrO2, RuO2 has also been demonstrated to be much cheaper than IrO2. In addition, RuO2 is not only highly active in alkaline conditions but also acidic solution, which could thus be widely employed for industrial water splitting. Furthermore, the Ru atoms have been recently proved to possess suitable adsorption energies for adsorbed oxygen (Oads) and hydrogen (Hads), which could thus display great promise for water electrolysis.

    2.3 Key issues of RuO2 towards OER

    Despite the superior activity, the commercial application of RuO2 toward OER is also greatly hindered by the serious durability issue. Generally, RuO2 is unstable due to the dissolution from the accompanying over-oxidation at the potential of 1.39 V. And the specific oxidation reaction can be clearly illustrated as following equation: RuO2 + 2H2O → RuO4 (aq) + 4H+ + 4e− (U0=1.39 V vs. RHE) [75]. Although the unique electronic properties enable the RuO2 to bind oxygen intermediates moderately to endow them with high electrocatalytic performance toward OER in acidic solution. Previous works have demonstrated that the OER activity and stability of RuO2 electrocatalyst are much lower than that in alkaline media. Hence, elaborate design of the highly active RuO2-based electrocatalysts toward acidic OER is highly expected. Apart from the acidic and basic OER, the electrocatalytic performance of RuO2-based electrocatalysts in neutral conditions still cannot meet the industrial standard. In order to realize the practical application, more research efforts should be devoted to improving the electrocatalytic activity and durability of RuO2-based electrocatalysts under neutral conditions.

    3. Advanced strategies for promoting electrocatalytic OER performance of RuO2

    Although RuO2 showed great promise for function as the efficient electrocatalysts toward OER, its unfortunately low mass activity and poor electrochemical durability significantly hindered its practical application. To meet the high demand for industrial application, it is highly imperative to promote the OER activity and durability of RuO2 and RuO2-based electrocatalysts. This section highlights some advanced strategies for improving the OER performance of RuO2-based materials, and many advanced RuO2-based and other nonprecious OER electrocatalysts were summarized in Table 1 (34, 37-40, 76-84) and Table S1 (Supporting information), respectively.

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    Table 1.  Comparison of the activity of RuO2-based materials for OER.
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    3.1 Morphology design

    In principle, the electrocatalytic performances are correlated with the surface atomic arrangements and electronic configurations of catalysts [85-87]. Therefore, rational morphology design of catalysts could endow them with largely exposed surface active area, which may thus provide more catalytically active sites available for intermediated species, contributing to the large promotion of electrocatalytic activity and long-term stability [88-94]. Many researchers have made lots of efforts to maximize the surface area of RuO2-based electrocatalysts by rational morphology design. For example, Hu et al. have finely controlled the Ru overlayers on the surface of Pd nanosheets [77]. Interestingly, as seen in Figs. 1a and b, the Pd@Ru nanosheets could be transformed into the PdO@RuO2 heterostructures with ~4 atomic layers of RuO2 after thermal oxidation treatment. Owing to the unique 2D hexagonal nanosheets structure with abundant surface active sites and weaker bonding of O* on PdO@RuO2 to boost the RDS for the generation of HOO* (Fig. 1c), such PdO@RuO2 with optimal RuO2 atomic layer could exhibit high electrocatalytic activity toward OER with the overpotential of only 257 mV at 10 mA/cm2 (Fig. 1d). More importantly, it was also remarkably to observe that the PdO@RuO2-4 nanosheets could maintain high activity and nanosheet morphology for even more than 2000 CV cycles, strongly suggesting the outstanding long-term stability.

    Figure 1

    Figure 1.  (a) Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and (b) high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) and elemental mapping images of the Pd@Ru. (c) Schematic surface structure of PdO@RuO2-n layers. (d) Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) curves of different electrocatalysts toward OER in 0.1 mol/L HClO4. Reproduced with permission [77]. Copyright 2019, American Chemica Society.
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    Very recently, Guo's group have proposed an effective method to fabricate the ultrathin RuRh@(RuRh)O2 core/shell nanosheets comprised of ultrathin metallic RuRh nanosheets as the core and a few layers of (RuRh)O2 as the shell [83] (Figs. 2a–d). Remarkably, such ultrathin core/shell nanosheets could display outstanding electrocatalytic OER performance with a low overpotential of 245 mV at 10 mA/cm2 in 0.1 mol/L HClO4 solution (Fig. 2e). It is interestingly to find that the 2D morphology of ultrathin RuRh@(RuRh)O2 core/shell nanosheets with high density of surface atoms working as surface active sites guarantee the excellent OER activity and the shell structure of (RuRh)O2 could effectively lower the fast Ru dissolution of RuRh nanosheets core, thereby contributing to the high electrocatalytic activity and stability. Moreover, theoretical investigations unraveled that the superior OER performances were originated from the electro-activation by the surface oxidation layer, and the shell RuO2 layer could further pump the electrons toward the adsorbates to effectively facilitate the consecutive reactions during OER process.

    Figure 2

    Figure 2.  (a) TEM, (b) HAADF-STEM, (c) elemental mapping, and (d) high resolution TEM (HRTEM) images of the ultrathin RuRh@(RuRh)O2 core/shell nanosheets. (e) LSV curves of the RuRh@(RuRh)O2 nanosheets, commercial RuO2, and RuRh nanosheets in 0.1 mol/L HClO4 solution. Reproduced with permission [83]. Copyright 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry.
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    In addition to the rational morphology design, it is also a consensus that downsizing the size of a catalyst is also another efficient strategy for promoting the electrocatalytic performance of catalyst. On the one hand, reducing the size of catalyst could help to expose more surface active sites available for intermediates [3, 95, 96]. On the other hand, introducing appropriate supports to maintain the dispersion of nanoparticles could effectively modify their electronic structure and accelerate the charge transfer, thereby contributing to the large promotion in electroatalytic OER performance [97-99]. Taking inspiration from this, numerous endeavors have been made to improve the electrocatalytic performances of RuO2-based materials by downsizing them. For instance, Chakraborty et al. have synthesized the porous carbon supported RuO2 nanoparticles with extremely small size (3-4 nm) through a facile self-pyrolysis method employing the covalent organic framework (COF) as a sacrificial precursor [79]. Owing to the high specific surface areas of small-sized RuO2 nanoparticles and high density of crystallinity of the graphitic sheets, the as-obtained RuO2@C could catalyze OER with overpotentials of only 210 mV at 10 mA/cm2 and outstanding electrochemical stability.

    3.2 Crystal facet engineering

    As previously discussed, the catalytic performance of a catalyst is closely associated with their surface atomic arrangement and configurations [45]. The crystallinity and crystal facet of materials are commonly utilized to regulate the local structure of surface adsorption sites, which plays a crucial role in determining the OER catalytic behaviors [100-103]. For instance, Stoerzinger et al. have unraveled that the (100) facet of RuO2 catalyst is more active in alkaline conditions than the (110) facet for OER due to the richer coordinately unsaturated metal sites on the (100) facet [33] (Fig. 3a). Roy et al. have found that the electrocatalytic activity of the prepared thin films with different orientations in 0.05 mol/L H2SO4 obeys the order as follows: (001) > (101) > (110) > (111), while the stability is not related to the activity (Figs. 3b–d) [73]. Moreover, Rao et al. have declaimed that the deprotonation of OH* intermediates could effectively stabilize OOH* and acted as RDS through density functional theoretical calculation [104].

    Figure 3

    Figure 3.  (a) Tafel plots of RuO2 (110) and RuO2 (100). Reproduced with permission [33]. Copyright 2014, American Chemical Society. (b) Histogram of the corrosion of RuO2 observed in RuO2 with (111), (110), (101), and (001) surface. (c) Schematics of the (111), (110), (101) and (001) facet and (d) the average current density measured in the 0.05 mol/L H2SO4 over 2 h. Reproduced with permission [73]. Copyright 2018, American Chemical Society.
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    3.3 Electronic structure engineering

    The intrinsic activity of electrochemical reaction is mainly relied on the energy barriers for the adsorption/desorption of intermediated species, governed by the electronic structures of surface active sites [105-110]. Therefore, the catalytic reactivity of catalysts is primarily depended on their surface electronic structures since they are strongly correlated to their electrocatalytic reaction barrier [111]. It has been demonstrated that the reaction barrier energy can effectively be modified by controlling the local electronic distributions of the catalysts, which could tailor the electronic structure whole or in part to promote the catalytic performance [112-116]. To this end, rationally regulating the electronic structure of RuO2-based materials to reduce their reaction energy barriers is another effective strategy for further promoting their electrocatalytic OER performance. With regard to the electronic structure engineering, doping has been widely considered as an effective way. Chen et al. have carried extensive researches on regulating the surface localized electronic structure of RuO2 by heteroatom doping [78]. For example, they have reported the successful fabrication of Mn-doped RuO2 nanocrystals via annealing the Ru-exchanged Mn-based derivative. Interestingly, the Mn doping in the RuO2 could effectively regulate the d-band center of Ru active sites and significantly lower the antibonding surface-adsorbate states, which contribute to a decreased free energy of RDS (Fig. 4a), thereby largely promoting the intrinsic activity of RuO2 (Fig. 4b). Wang et al. have developed a general strategy to construct a series of transition metal-doped RuO2 nanowires with a unique networked structure, abundant surface defects, and plentiful grain boundaries [82] (Fig. 4c). Moreover, the theoretical calculation implied that the d-band center of RuO2 could be effectively be modified by transition metal doping, which could induce an optimal adsorption energy of intermediates, ultimately contributing to excellent electrocatalytic OER performance (Fig. 4d). As a consequence, the optimal Co-doped RuO2 nanowires could display remarkable OER activity with the overpotential of 200 mV at 10 mA/cm2. Su et al. have also realized the effective electronic structure engineering of RuO2 by means of heteroatom doping [81]. Specifically, they have developed a facile approach for the fabrication of Cu-doped RuO2 hollow polyhedral via annealing Ru-exchanged Cu-BTC. Of note, the highly unsaturated Ru sites on the high-index facets could be oxidized to significantly lower the energy barrier of RDS. More importantly, the Cu-dopant could effectively tailor the electronic structures of RuO2 to further promote their intrinsic OER activity. This work has also demonstrated the synergistic contributions of the surface arrangement and electronic structure engineering.

    Figure 4

    Figure 4.  (a) Calculated density of state of RuO2, Mn-RuO2, and the histograms of the antibonding and bonding formation. (b) LSV curves of RuO2, Mn-RuO2, and commercial RuO2. Reproduced with permission [78]. Copyright 2019, American Chemical Society. (c) HRTEM image of the Co-RuO2. (d) The projected density of state of the Fe, Co, and Ni atoms. Reproduced with permission [82]. Copyright 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry.
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    In addition to the single-doping, dual-doping approaches such as dual-anionic and dual-cationic, have also been well developed to synergistically tune the electronic structures of catalytically active sites. For example, Wu et al. have synthesized the Ni-Co codoped RuO2 nanocatalysts, in which the increase of oxygen vacancies and higher valence of Ru site induced the modification of the host material (Figs. 5a and b), thereby contributing to the outstanding electrocatalytic OER performance [117]. As a result, the codoped RuO2 with Co/Ni of 1.5 showed high OER kinetic with a Tafel slope of only 32 mV/dec.

    Figure 5

    Figure 5.  (a) Schematic illustration of the water oxidation based on Ni-Co codoped RuO2 and the mass activities of RuO2 and all codoped composites at the potential of 1.7 V vs. RHE. (b) Free energy profile of OER on (110) and (111) surfaces. Reproduced with permission [117]. Copyright 2020, American Chemical Society.
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    3.4 Defect engineering

    Besides chemical doping, the electronic structures of the catalytically active sites could also be greatly affected by the surface coordination environments [118, 119]. Modifying the crystalline properties of an electrocatalyst could regulate the surface atomic arrangement and coordination environment of the active centers, which could thus significantly promote the electrocatalytic performances of catalysts [120-122]. By creating defects of the catalyst could greatly tailor the surface atomic arrangement and the coordination environment of the catalytically active sites. Generally, owing to the second law of thermodynamics, defects are typically present in all catalysts, which could effectively induce the redistribution of electrochemical property [105, 123-126]. To this end, precisely regulating the defects of RuO2-based materials affords a possibility for improving their electrocatalytic OER performances, and numerous efforts have been made to further promote the electrocatalytic OER performance of the RuO2 through defect engineering. For example, Li et al. have developed a facile finite oxygenation approach to synthesize the defective RuO2 by employing the oxygen-enriched graphene as the limited oxygen supplier [39] (Fig. 6a). Impressively, the as-prepared defective RuO2/graphene composite with high specific surface area, abundant hydroxylated surface and intrinsically defective RuO2 could exhibit extraordinary OER performance with the overpotentials of 169 and 175 mV to achieve 10 mA/cm2 in acidic and alkaline conditions, respectively (Figs. 6b–d). Moreover, the long-term electrochemical measurements also demonstrated that such defective RuO2/graphene composite could exhibit excellent long-term electrochemcail stability.

    Figure 6

    Figure 6.  (a) Schematic illustrating the synthetic process of defective RuO2/Graphene heterostructures. (b) HRTEM image of the defective RuO2/Graphene heterostructures. (c) The free-energy profiles of the OER on the Ru site. (d) polarization curves of defective RuO2/Graphene heterostructures and 2D RuO2 toward OER. Reproduced with permission [39]. Copyright 2020, Elsevier.
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    Vacancy, as an intrinsic defect, has also been created to enhance the intrinsic activity of a catalyst [127-129]. In regard to OER, oxygen vacancies in metal oxides have been demonstrated to be crucial for improving their electrocatalytic OER performance [128, 130-136]. For example, Wang's group have developed a facile plasma-engraved strategy for creating the oxygen vacancies of Co3O4 nanosheets, in which the abundant oxygen vacancies significantly improved the electrocial conductivity of Co3O4 as well as provided rich electroactive defects available for intermediated species, thereby contributing to the large enhancement in electrocatalytic OER performance [137]. Taking inspiration from this, Chen's group has synthesized the Co-doped RuO2 nanorod electrocatalyst enriched with plenty of oxygen vacancies by annealing Ru-exchanged ZIF-67 derivatives [40] (Figs. 7a and b). Remarkably, the abundant oxygen vacancies and modulated electronic structure of the Co-doped RuO2 nanorod electrocatalyst significantly contributed to greatly improved electrocatalytic OER performance in acidic solution with an overpotential of only 169 mV at 10 mA/cm2. Theoretical calculations revealed that the OER preferentially proceeded through lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism pathway by passing a lower RDS barrier under the assistance of abundant oxygen vacancies (Figs. 7c and d).

    Figure 7

    Figure 7.  (a) Schematic and (b) HRTEM image of the Co-doped RuO2 nanorods. (c, d) Comparison of the OER mechanisms with the different local configurations. Reproduced with permission [40]. Copyright 2020, Elsevier.
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    3.5 Enhancing conductivity

    Considering that the electron transfer rate plays a key role in determining the electrocatalytic activity, constructing a catalyst with high electrical conductivity is highly appreciated [138, 139]. For OER electrocatalysts, one of the most effective strategies to improve their electrical conductivity is to introduce appropriate conductive supports [140-142]. Owing to the large surface area, inherent structural stability, and high electrical conductivity, carbon-based nanomaterials have thus been widely utilized as catalyst supports for enhancing the electrical conductivity of the catalysts. For instance, Xie and coworkers have demonstrated the facile synthesis of N-doped CNTs supported RuO2 nanoparticles (Figs. 8a–c), in which the N-doped CNTs significantly improved the electrical conductivity and structural stability under corrosive conditions [143] (Fig. 8d). More importantly, it is interestingly to find that the nitrogen doping could effectively tailor the electronic structure and electrochemical properties of CNTs, thereby further promoting their electrocatalytic performance (Fig. 8e).

    Figure 8

    Figure 8.  (a) Schematic illustration of the synthesis process of the RuO2/F-doped graphene composite. (b, c) HRTEM images of RuO2/F-doped graphene composite. (d) Nyquist plots of different catalysts in 1 mol/L KOH solution. (e) LSV polarization curves of different catalysts toward OER. Reproduced with permission [146]. Copyright 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry.
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    Besides the CNTs, graphene is also an important catalyst support with not only high electrical conductivity but also high specific surface area [124, 144, 145]. Moreover, the inherently mechanical stability also enabled them to be promising supports for electrochemical applications. Inspired by this, Kang's group has utilized the graphene to improve the electrocatalytic OER performance of RuO2 [146]. To be specific, they have fabricated the RuO2/F-doped graphene composite, in which the F-doped graphene could help the small RuO2 nanoparticles to homogeneously distribute without obvious aggregation. Moreover, the addition of fluorine with strong electronegativity could significantly enhance the electrical conductivity and stability of RuO2/F-doped graphene composite, ultimately leading to the outstanding electrocatalytic OER performance. Consequently, an overpotential of 239 mV is demanded for the RuO2/F-doped graphene composite to generate a current density of 10 mA/cm2 in 1 mol/L KOH solution.

    3.6 Heterostructure engineering

    Typically, building RuO2 and other components (e.g., metals, phosphides, sulfides, oxides) into heterostructured composites is also highly favorable for promoting their electrocatalytic activity and durability due to the unique synergistic effect between different components [147]. In addition, the effective electron transfer between different components is also beneficial for further enhancing the electrocatalytic performance of the composites [148-157]. Therefore, building advanced heterostructures offers an effective path to further enhance the electrocatalytic activity and durability of RuO2-based electrocatalysts through strong synergistic and electronic effect. Taking inspiration from this, Zhang et al. have constructed the Ru-RuO2/CNT hybrids with outstanding electrocatalytic performance for water splitting at a wide range of pH [76]. Comprehensive characterizations coupling with in-depth theoretical studies revealed that metallic Ru, RuO2 and CNTs synergistically contributed to such high electrocatalytic activity. Moreover, the generated active sites on the interface between Ru and RuO2 are also favorable for further promoting their electrocatalytic OER performance. Apart from the metal/RuO2 composites, building RuO2 with metal oxides is also effective for enhancing their electrocatalytic performance. For example, Galani et al. have developed the RuO2/CeO2 heterostructure, in which the optimized herterojunction between RuO2 and CeO2 facilitated the accumulation of more electrolytes and boosted the electron transportation, potentially leading to the improvements in activity and span of electrocatalysts [37]. As illustrated in Fig. 9a, Chen's group has reported the construction of Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalyst derived from metal-organic framework [84]. Comprehensive electrochemical measurements demonstrated that the Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalyst could show a record low overpotential of 178 mV at 10 mA/cm2 in acidic solution (Fig. 9b). Systematical characterizations and in-depth theoretical study demonstrated that the high electrochemical stability was associated with the lower occupation at the Fermi level, while the outstanding electrocatalytic activity was originated from the modified electronic structure by Cr (Fig. 9c). Moreover, the theoretical calculations also demonstrated a low energy barrier for the generation of OOH* (RDS) (Fig. 9d).

    Figure 9

    Figure 9.  (a) Schematic illustrating the preparation of the Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalysts. (b) OER polarization curves of different catalysts. (c) The four-step OER process based on Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalyst. (d) The calculated free energy diagrams for RuO2 and Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalyst. Reproduced with permission [84]. Copyright 2019, Nature Publishing Group.
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    Constructing the mixed phases of the Ru-based compounds is also another effective strategy for optimized the activity and stability of the RuO2 electrocatalyst. Inspired by this, Chorkendorff and coworkers have integrated the advantages of the interface effect with the high anticorrosion ability of IrOx to construct the IrOx/RuO2 heterostructured electrocatalyst [158]. Typically, the sub-monolayers amounts of IrOx coated at the surface of the RuO2 greatly protect the Ru against dissolution due to the higher dissolution potential of Ir, leading to the greatly enhanced stability as compared to pure RuO2 (Fig. 10). Moreover, the strong synergistic effect originated from the heterostructures also contributed to the great promotion of electrocatalytic OER activity, presenting an advanced OER electrocatalyst.

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    Figure 10.  (a) Schematic illustration of the OER based on pure RuO2 and IrOx/RuO2. (b) Geometric current densities of pure RuO2 and IrOx/RuO2 at 1.8 V (vs. RHE) over time and (c) mass loss as a function of time. Reproduced with permission [158]. Copyright 2018, American Chemical Society.
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    RuO2, with the favorable bonding energy with oxygen-containing intermediates, has been widely researched as promising electrocatalysts for driving OER. However, the dissolution from the excessive oxidation during OER process made the RuO2 to be extremely unstable. To overcome these difficulties, considerable endeavors have been made to the design of high-performance RuO2 electrocatalysts. In a word, we herein highlight the great achievements of the RuO2-based materials toward OER in alkaline or acidic media. Accordingly to previously advanced researches, the electrocatalytic OER performance of RuO2 could be significantly improved by morphology design, crystal facet engineering, electronic structure modifications, defect engineering, enhancing conductivity, and heterostructure engineering. For one thing, designing unique morphology could afford abundant surface active sites available for intermediates. For another, the effective electronic structure engineering, defect engineering, and heterostructure engineering could also optimize the bonding energy of oxygen-involved intermediates. These advanced strategies enabled the RuO2-based electrocatalysts to display promising electrocatalytic performance toward OER.

    Although great achievements, there are still many challenges for this flourishing field. (1) Bifunctional properties. Generally, RuO2-based materials are extensively researched as OER electrocatalysts, while their electrocatalytic performances toward HER are relatively lower, which in turn limited their commercial applications. Therefore, to significantly lower the manufacturing costs, great endeavors should be devoted to the fabrication of RuO2 electrocatalyst with bifunctional behavior. To address this issue, developing multi-component catalysts by integrating highly active RuO2 with HER-active components or exploring novel engineering strategies is effective for realizing the bifunctionality. (2) Durability issues. In addition to the reaction kinetics, the long-time stability is also significant for industrial application. It is widely acknowledged that the dissolution from the excessive oxidation during OER process inevitably deactivate the active sites of RuO2-based materials, resulting in low electrocatalytic activity and poor stability. Therefore, focusing on enhancing the long-time stability of RuO2-based materials has been of vital significance. Normally, a thorough investigation of the activity degradation via advanced techniques is highly urgent, which could offer guidance for the synthesis of more efficient RuO2-based electrocatalysts. (3) Applicability in a wide pH range. Despite many newly engineering RuO2-based materials are applicable for OER or HER, while most of the developed RuO2-based materials for HER-OER bifunctional electrocatalysis could only be performed in basic or acidic media. Nonetheless, such electrolyzers were commonly restrained by many inevitable shortcomings, such as high energy consumption and expensive installation/maintenance. To avoid these problems, exploring and developing highly effective RuO2-based electrocatalysts in neutral solution is highly sought. (4) Revealing reaction mechanisms. Though many advanced RuO2-based catalysts are well developed toward OER, the in-depth identifications of the underlying reaction mechanism are still lacking. Therefore, more advanced in situ techniques, such as in situ transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman, and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) should be employed to study the real reaction active sites and atomic-level changes during electrochemical reaction. In addition, closely integrating the systematical characterizations and electrochemical measurements with the theoretical investigations will also better reveal the electrocatalytic processes based on RuO2-based electrocatalysts.

    In a word, RuO2-based materials showed great promise for the OER, along with the rapid development of material science and the comprehensive understanding of reaction mechanism from atomic level, we believe great opportunity for high-performance OER catalysts and their practical application in energy-conversion techniques will bring a bright prospect in the coming future.

    Declaration of competing interest

    The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

    Acknowledgments

    We thanked the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51873136, 52073199), Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (No. 18KJA150008), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20181428).

    Appendix A. Supplementary data

    Supplementary material related to this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2020.11.051.


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  • Scheme 1  Scheme of the OER mechanism based on RuO2 in wide pH values.

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    Figure 1  (a) Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and (b) high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) and elemental mapping images of the Pd@Ru. (c) Schematic surface structure of PdO@RuO2-n layers. (d) Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) curves of different electrocatalysts toward OER in 0.1 mol/L HClO4. Reproduced with permission [77]. Copyright 2019, American Chemica Society.

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    Figure 2  (a) TEM, (b) HAADF-STEM, (c) elemental mapping, and (d) high resolution TEM (HRTEM) images of the ultrathin RuRh@(RuRh)O2 core/shell nanosheets. (e) LSV curves of the RuRh@(RuRh)O2 nanosheets, commercial RuO2, and RuRh nanosheets in 0.1 mol/L HClO4 solution. Reproduced with permission [83]. Copyright 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry.

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    Figure 3  (a) Tafel plots of RuO2 (110) and RuO2 (100). Reproduced with permission [33]. Copyright 2014, American Chemical Society. (b) Histogram of the corrosion of RuO2 observed in RuO2 with (111), (110), (101), and (001) surface. (c) Schematics of the (111), (110), (101) and (001) facet and (d) the average current density measured in the 0.05 mol/L H2SO4 over 2 h. Reproduced with permission [73]. Copyright 2018, American Chemical Society.

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    Figure 4  (a) Calculated density of state of RuO2, Mn-RuO2, and the histograms of the antibonding and bonding formation. (b) LSV curves of RuO2, Mn-RuO2, and commercial RuO2. Reproduced with permission [78]. Copyright 2019, American Chemical Society. (c) HRTEM image of the Co-RuO2. (d) The projected density of state of the Fe, Co, and Ni atoms. Reproduced with permission [82]. Copyright 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry.

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    Figure 5  (a) Schematic illustration of the water oxidation based on Ni-Co codoped RuO2 and the mass activities of RuO2 and all codoped composites at the potential of 1.7 V vs. RHE. (b) Free energy profile of OER on (110) and (111) surfaces. Reproduced with permission [117]. Copyright 2020, American Chemical Society.

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    Figure 6  (a) Schematic illustrating the synthetic process of defective RuO2/Graphene heterostructures. (b) HRTEM image of the defective RuO2/Graphene heterostructures. (c) The free-energy profiles of the OER on the Ru site. (d) polarization curves of defective RuO2/Graphene heterostructures and 2D RuO2 toward OER. Reproduced with permission [39]. Copyright 2020, Elsevier.

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    Figure 7  (a) Schematic and (b) HRTEM image of the Co-doped RuO2 nanorods. (c, d) Comparison of the OER mechanisms with the different local configurations. Reproduced with permission [40]. Copyright 2020, Elsevier.

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    Figure 8  (a) Schematic illustration of the synthesis process of the RuO2/F-doped graphene composite. (b, c) HRTEM images of RuO2/F-doped graphene composite. (d) Nyquist plots of different catalysts in 1 mol/L KOH solution. (e) LSV polarization curves of different catalysts toward OER. Reproduced with permission [146]. Copyright 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry.

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    Figure 9  (a) Schematic illustrating the preparation of the Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalysts. (b) OER polarization curves of different catalysts. (c) The four-step OER process based on Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalyst. (d) The calculated free energy diagrams for RuO2 and Cr0.6Ru0.4O2 catalyst. Reproduced with permission [84]. Copyright 2019, Nature Publishing Group.

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    Figure 10  (a) Schematic illustration of the OER based on pure RuO2 and IrOx/RuO2. (b) Geometric current densities of pure RuO2 and IrOx/RuO2 at 1.8 V (vs. RHE) over time and (c) mass loss as a function of time. Reproduced with permission [158]. Copyright 2018, American Chemical Society.

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    Table 1.  Comparison of the activity of RuO2-based materials for OER.
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