Electrochemical barriers made simple

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2663-2668

  Chan, Karen ^a   Nørskov, Jens K ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrochemical

Indexed keywords

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

CHARGE-TRANSFER REACTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; ELECTROCHEMICAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARGE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

EID: 84937120035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01043     Document Type: Article

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