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A rapid and scalable method for making mixed metal oxide alloys for enabling accelerated materials discovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2016

Babajide Patrick Ajayi Open the ORCID record for Babajide Patrick Ajayi [Opens in a new window] ,
Sudesh Kumari ,
Daniel Jaramillo-Cabanzo ,
Joshua Spurgeon ,
Jacek Jasinski  and
Mahendra Sunkara
Babajide Patrick Ajayi
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA; and Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Sudesh Kumari
Affiliation:
Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Daniel Jaramillo-Cabanzo
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA; and Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Joshua Spurgeon
Affiliation:
Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Jacek Jasinski
Affiliation:
Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Mahendra Sunkara*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA; and Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: mahendra@louisville.edu
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Abstract

The synthesis technique that can be used to accelerate the discovery of materials for various energy conversion and storage applications is presented. Specifically, this technique allows a rapid and controlled synthesis of mixed metal oxide particles using plasma oxidation of liquid droplets containing mixed metal precursors. The conventional wet chemical methods for synthesis of multimetal oxide solid solutions often require time-consuming high pressure and temperature processes, and so the challenge is to develop rapid and scalable techniques with precise compositional control. The concept is demonstrated by synthesizing binary and ternary transition metal oxide solid solutions with control over entire composition range using metal precursor solution droplets oxidized using atmospheric oxygen plasma. The results show the selective formation of metastable spinel and the rocksalt solid solution phases with compositions over the entire range by tuning the metal precursor composition. The synthesized manganese doped nickel ferrite nanoparticles, NiMn z Fe2−z O4 (0 ≤ z ≤ 1), exhibits considerable electrocatalytic activity toward oxygen evolution reaction, achieving an overpotential of 0.39 V at a benchmarking current density of 10 mA/cm2 for a low manganese content of z = 0.20.

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energy storagepyrolysisspray pyrolysis
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 31 , Issue 11: Focus Issue: Advanced Materials and Structures for Solar Fuels , 14 June 2016 , pp. 1596 - 1607
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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