Hydration-Effect-Promoting Ni-Fe Oxyhydroxide Catalysts for Neutral Water Oxidation.

N.W., Z.C., and X.Z. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence Program, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the CIFAR Bio-Inspired Solar Energy program. N.W. and X.D.Z. acknowledge support from International Cooperation Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2014DFE60170), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61474065), and (61674084), Tianjin Research Key Program of Science and Technology (18ZXJMTG00220), 111 Project (B16027), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. B.Z. and H.S.P. acknowledge funding from Ministry of Science and Technology (2016YFA0203302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21875042), and the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (18QA1400800). This work benefited from access to the 1W1B beamline at Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The TEM studies in this work were supported by Jingshan Luo. The simulations were performed using the KAUST supercomputer (HPC).