Thermodynamic explanation of the universal correlation between oxygen evolution activity and corrosion of oxide catalysts

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Binninger, Tobias ^a   Mohamed, Rhiyaad ^b   Waltar, Kay ^a   Fabbri, Emiliana ^a   Levecque, Pieter ^b   Kötz, Rüdiger ^a   Schmidt, Thomas J ^a,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84937604067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12167     Document Type: Article

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