The invention relates to an
oxygen evolution catalyst for
hydrogen production through
electrolysis of
proton exchange membrane water, a membrane
electrode and a preparation method of the membrane
electrode, and the
oxygen evolution catalyst is
iridium oxide in a
nanoparticle form and contains 2-2.5% of
crystal water; the preparation method of the catalyst comprises the following steps: carrying out ultrasonic treatment on an
iridium salt solution, mixing the
iridium salt solution with
magnesium sulfate and water, carrying out ultrasonic treatment, volatilizing a
solvent,
drying, carrying out ball milling to obtain
powder, carrying out high-temperature
calcination, dissolving with
dilute acid, carrying out suction
filtration with water and
ethanol until the
conductivity is less than 10 [mu] s / cm, carrying out
vacuum drying to remove
moisture, and
grinding to obtain the catalyst. The membrane
electrode comprises the catalyst
powder prepared by the method and an
anode catalyst layer formed by perfluorinated
sulfonic acid resin; and the
cathode catalyst layer is formed by Pt / C and
perfluorosulfonic acid resin. The
oxygen evolution catalyst provided by the invention has
high activity and high stability,
magnesium sulfate is adopted in the preparation method, and the
oxygen evolution catalyst has the advantages of simple operation, low cost and the like.