Covalency-reinforced oxygen evolution reaction catalyst

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yagi, Shunsuke ^a   Yamada, Ikuya ^a,b   Tsukasaki, Hirofumi ^a   Seno, Akihiro ^a   Murakami, Makoto ^a   Fujii, Hiroshi ^a   Chen, Hungru ^c   Umezawa, Naoto ^b,c   Abe, Hideki ^b,c   Nishiyama, Norimasa ^b,d   Mori, Shigeo ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; COBALT; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; STRONTIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT; WATER;

CATALYST; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOOXIDATION; TRANSITION ELEMENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; COVALENT BOND; ENERGY CONVERSION; GOLD STANDARD; OXIDATION; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84941585029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9249     Document Type: Article

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