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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a crucial role in developing energy conversion and adjusting electronic structure of the electrocatalysts can effectively improve the catalytic activity and stability. However, it is a challenge to adjust the electronic structure on two-dimensional iridium dioxide nanosheets (IrO2 NS), which have the advantages of high atom utilization. Here, we regulate the surface properties of IrO2 NS through sulfonated carbon dots (SCDs) to promote the OER catalytic process. The catalyst IrO2 NS/SCDs-2 exhibited excellent catalytic activity with a lower overpotential of 180 mV than IrO2 NS (230 mV) at the current density of 10 mA·cm−2 in a 0.5 M H2SO4 solution. And after 160 h of stability testing, the overpotential of IrO2 NS/SCDs-2 only decreased by 4 mV. Moreover, transient potential scanning test can visually demonstrate that the addition of SCDs improves the conductivity of the catalyst and increases the electron transfer rate.
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