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Record W4416679467 · doi:10.1002/sstr.202500552

Glancing Angle Deposition for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2025· article· en· W4416679467 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSmall Structures · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicElectrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Canadian institutionsNational Institute for NanotechnologyUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAlberta InnovatesGovernment of Alberta
KeywordsOverpotentialOxygen evolutionDeposition (geology)Non-blocking I/OCatalysisNickelElectrochemistryOxide

Abstract

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The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) presents a major kinetic challenge in alkaline water electrolysis. Nickel oxide (NiO) is generally accepted as a favorable material due to its abundance and stability, yet it also exhibits limited intrinsic catalytic activity. In this study, nanocolumnar NiO electrodes were fabricated using glancing angle deposition (GLAD), and key deposition parameters, film thickness, angle, and deposition rate, were systematically tuned to optimize OER performance. An overpotential of 311 mV at 10 mA/cm 2 was achieved for a 512 nm thick film deposited at 78° with an increasing‐rate profile. Interestingly, this performance peak coincided with a morphological transition zone within the nanocolumns, where growth dynamics likely promote a favorable defect landscape. In contrast, thicker films showed reduced activity, likely due to diminished defect density associated with further morphological evolution. Electrochemical cycling further enhanced performance via a self‐reconstruction process, forming branch‐like NiOOH/Ni(OH) 2 features and reducing the overpotential to 269 mV. These results highlight the impact of growth‐induced structural transitions and defect formation on catalytic performance, positioning GLAD as an effective platform for rational OER catalyst design.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.096
Threshold uncertainty score0.591

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it