The invention discloses a
nickel ferrite catalytic material as well as a preparation method and application of the
nickel ferrite catalytic material with a controllable
crystal face, and belongs to the technical field of electro-
catalysis. The preparation method comprises the following steps: fixing a conductive substrate in a cavity of a magnetron
sputtering coating machine, ensuring that the substrate is parallel to a
target surface, and setting a target-substrate distance to be 2-20cm; the cavity of the magnetron
sputtering coating machine is pre-vacuumized, and glow cleaning is carried out after
inert gas is introduced;
nickel ferrite is used as a target material, a
nickel ferrite catalytic layer is deposited in situ on the surface of the conductive base material through
physical vapor deposition, and the
nickel ferrite catalytic material is obtained. According to the method, the magnetron
sputtering technology is adopted, the target-substrate distance is changed, effective regulation and control over the
nickel ferrite crystal face structure are successfully achieved, and the
electronic structure and the surface adsorption /
desorption energy barrier of the material can be remarkably influenced by the fine change of the
crystal structure; therefore, three bottlenecks of
low activity, poor stability and slow dynamics confronted by nickel ferrite as an OER catalyst are synchronously broken through, and key material and
technical support is provided for commercial application of an AEM
electrolytic cell.