Understanding Catalytic Activity Trends in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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Title: Understanding Catalytic Activity Trends in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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Despite the dedicated search for novel catalysts for fuel cell applications, the intrinsic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity of materials has not improved significantly over the past decade. Here in this paper, we review the role of theory in understanding the ORR mechanism and highlight the descriptor-based approaches that have been used to identify catalysts with increased activity. Specifically, by showing that the performance of the commonly studied materials (e.g., metals, alloys, carbons, etc.) is limited by unfavorable scaling relationships (for binding energies of reaction intermediates), we present a number of alternative strategies that may lead to the design and discovery of more promising materials for ORR.

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Kulkarni, Ambarish ^[1];

^[1]; Patel, Anjli ^[1]; Nørskov, Jens K. ^[2]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Dept. of Chemical Engineering; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-02-06

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

OSTI Identifier:: 1471506

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Chemical Reviews

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0009-2665

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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                    Kulkarni, Ambarish, Siahrostami, Samira, Patel, Anjli, and Nørskov, Jens K. Understanding Catalytic Activity Trends in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
        Web.  doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00488.

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                    Kulkarni, Ambarish, Siahrostami, Samira, Patel, Anjli, & Nørskov, Jens K. Understanding Catalytic Activity Trends in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.  United States.  doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00488.

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                    Kulkarni, Ambarish, Siahrostami, Samira, Patel, Anjli, and Nørskov, Jens K. Tue .  
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@article{osti_1471506,

  title        = {Understanding Catalytic Activity Trends in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction},

  author       = {Kulkarni, Ambarish and Siahrostami, Samira and Patel, Anjli and Nørskov, Jens K.},

  abstractNote = {Despite the dedicated search for novel catalysts for fuel cell applications, the intrinsic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity of materials has not improved significantly over the past decade. Here in this paper, we review the role of theory in understanding the ORR mechanism and highlight the descriptor-based approaches that have been used to identify catalysts with increased activity. Specifically, by showing that the performance of the commonly studied materials (e.g., metals, alloys, carbons, etc.) is limited by unfavorable scaling relationships (for binding energies of reaction intermediates), we present a number of alternative strategies that may lead to the design and discovery of more promising materials for ORR.},

  doi          = {10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00488},

  journal      = {Chemical Reviews},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 118,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {2}

}

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