Proton switch for modulating oxygen reduction by a copper electrocatalyst embedded in a hybrid bilayer membrane

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 619-623

  Barile, Christopher J ^a   Tse, Edmund C M ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Sobyra, Thomas B ^a   Zimmerman, Steven C ^a   Hosseini, Ali ^b   Gewirth, Andrew A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; PROTONS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; HYBRID BILAYER MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; PROTON TRANSPORT; PROTON-COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

COPPER; OXYGEN; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CATALYSIS; COPPER; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; LIPID BILAYERS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PROTONS;

EID: 84901259655     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3974     Document Type: Article

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