Changing the Activity of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction by Tuning the Surface Electronic Structure

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Authors

Vojislav R. Stamenković · University of California, Berkeley

B. S. Mun · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Karl J. J. Mayrhofer · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Philip N. Ross · University of California, Berkeley

Nenad M. Marković · Argonne National Laboratory

Jan Rossmeisl · Technical University of Denmark

Jeff Greeley

Abstract

Going platinum: The theoretical description of electrocatalytic phenomena is extremely challenging. A simple, density functional theory based model has been developed that is able to give a semiquantitative description of the reaction kinetics for the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction on several platinum binary alloys, Pt3M (see graph).

Topics & Keywords

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Fuel Cells and Related Materials Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Clean water and sanitation

Publication Details

Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 45, Issue 18, pp. 2897-2901

DOI: 10.1002/anie.200504386

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