High‐Rate Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Al‐Doped LiNiO₂

LiNi0.8 Al0.2 O2 with a higher Ni(3+) /Li(+) ordering, synthesized by the solution-combustion method, gives oxygen-evolution-reaction (OER) activity in alkaline solution that is comparable to that of IrO2 . This confirms that the octahedral-site Ni(IV) /Ni(III) couple in an oxide is an active redox center for the OER with -redox energy pinned at the top of the O-2p bands.