Catalytic activity and stability of oxides: The role of near-surface atomic structures and compositions
Abstract
Electrocatalysts play an important role in catalyzing the kinetics for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions for many air-based energy storage and conversion devices, such as metal$$-$$air batteries and fuel cells. Although noble metals have been extensively used as electrocatalysts, their limited natural abundance and high costs have motivated the search for more cost-effective catalysts. Oxides are suitable candidates since they are relatively inexpensive andhave shown reasonably high activity for various electrochemical reactions. However, a lack of fundamental understanding of the reaction mechanisms has been a major hurdle toward improving electrocatalytic activity. Here, detailed studies of the oxide surface atomic structure and chemistry (e.g.,cation migration) can provide much needed insights for the design of highly efficient and stable oxide electrocatalysts.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem (Israel)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Supercomputing Laboratory; National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1352520
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Accounts of Chemical Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 49; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0001-4842
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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Feng, Zhenxing, Hong, Wesley T., Fong, Dillon D., Lee, Yueh -Lin, Yacoby, Yizhak, Morgan, Dane, and Shao-Horn, Yang. Catalytic activity and stability of oxides: The role of near-surface atomic structures and compositions. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00555.
Feng, Zhenxing, Hong, Wesley T., Fong, Dillon D., Lee, Yueh -Lin, Yacoby, Yizhak, Morgan, Dane, & Shao-Horn, Yang. Catalytic activity and stability of oxides: The role of near-surface atomic structures and compositions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00555
Feng, Zhenxing, Hong, Wesley T., Fong, Dillon D., Lee, Yueh -Lin, Yacoby, Yizhak, Morgan, Dane, and Shao-Horn, Yang. Thu .
"Catalytic activity and stability of oxides: The role of near-surface atomic structures and compositions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00555. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352520.
@article{osti_1352520,
title = {Catalytic activity and stability of oxides: The role of near-surface atomic structures and compositions},
author = {Feng, Zhenxing and Hong, Wesley T. and Fong, Dillon D. and Lee, Yueh -Lin and Yacoby, Yizhak and Morgan, Dane and Shao-Horn, Yang},
abstractNote = {Electrocatalysts play an important role in catalyzing the kinetics for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions for many air-based energy storage and conversion devices, such as metal$-$air batteries and fuel cells. Although noble metals have been extensively used as electrocatalysts, their limited natural abundance and high costs have motivated the search for more cost-effective catalysts. Oxides are suitable candidates since they are relatively inexpensive andhave shown reasonably high activity for various electrochemical reactions. However, a lack of fundamental understanding of the reaction mechanisms has been a major hurdle toward improving electrocatalytic activity. Here, detailed studies of the oxide surface atomic structure and chemistry (e.g.,cation migration) can provide much needed insights for the design of highly efficient and stable oxide electrocatalysts.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00555},
journal = {Accounts of Chemical Research},
number = 5,
volume = 49,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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