Morphology engineering of iridium electrodes via modifying titanium substrates with controllable pillar structures for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction

•Morphology engineering of iridium electrodes with pillar-structured ti substrates is developed.•Surface treatments of Ti substrates with different acids and etching times are optimized.•The electrode morphology, interfacial resistance and catalytic activity are investigated.•The pillar-structured e...

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