Dramatic increase in the oxygen reduction reaction for platinum cathodes from tuning the solvent dielectric constant

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 53, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 6669-6672

  Fortunelli, Alessandro ^a,b   Goddard, William A ^b   Sha, Yao ^b   Yu, Ted H ^b   Sementa, Luca ^a   Barcaro, Giovanni ^a   Andreussi, Oliviero ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

density functional calculations; electrochemistry; hydrogen fuel cells; reaction energy barriers; solvation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN FUELS; PLATINUM; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLVATION; SOLVENTS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION KINETICS; PLATINUM CATHODES; REACTION BARRIERS; REACTION ENERGY BARRIERS; SOLVENT POLARIZATION; SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 84903119232     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201403264     Document Type: Article

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