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Combining the properties of stable TiO2 with those of active iridium oxide, we synthesized highly active electrodes for OER in acidic media. TiO2 powders (both commercially available Degussa P-25\u00ae and hydrothermally prepared in the laboratory from TiOSO4, either as received\/prepared or following ammonolysis to be converted to titania black), were decorated with IrO2 by UV photodeposition from Ir(III) aqueous solutions of varied methanol scavenger concentrations. TEM, EDS, FESEM, XPS, and XRD measurements demonstrate that the optimized version of the photodeposition preparation method (i.e., with no added methanol) leads to direct deposition of well-dispersed IrO2 nanoparticles. The electroactive surface area and electrocatalytic performance towards OER of these catalysts have been evaluated by cyclic voltammetry (CV), Linear Sweep Voltammetry (LSV), and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) in 0.1 M HClO4 solutions. All TiO2-based catalysts exhibited better mass-specific (as well as intrinsic) OER activity than commercial unsupported IrO2, with the best of them (IrO2 on Degussa P-25\u00ae \u03a4iO2 and laboratory-made TiO2 black) showing 100 mAmgIr\u22121 at an overpotential of \u03b7 = 243 mV. Chronoamperometry (CA) experiments also proved good medium-term stability of the optimum IrO2\/TiO2 electrodes during OER.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules29102392","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,20]],"date-time":"2024-05-20T06:31:58Z","timestamp":1716186718000},"page":"2392","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["IrO2 Oxygen Evolution Catalysts Prepared by an Optimized Photodeposition Process on TiO2 Substrates"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"29","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1767-5691","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Angeliki","family":"Banti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christina","family":"Zafeiridou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michail","family":"Charalampakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH-IESL), 70013 Herakleion, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Olga-Niki","family":"Spyridou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3275-4769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jenia","family":"Georgieva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Rostislaw Kaischew Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vasileios","family":"Binas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece"},{"name":"Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH-IESL), 70013 Herakleion, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Efrosyni","family":"Mitrousi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6119-0755","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sotiris","family":"Sotiropoulos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4926","DOI":"10.1039\/D3EE02695G","article-title":"Hydrogen society: From present to future","volume":"16","author":"Guan","year":"2023","journal-title":"Energy Environ. 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