Enhancement Effect of Noble Metals on Manganese Oxide for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 4178-4183

  Seitz, Linsey C ^a   Hersbach, Thomas J P ^a   Nordlund, Dennis ^b   Jaramillo, Thomas F ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

metal air batteries; MnOx; oxygen evolution reaction; solar fuel production; water oxidation

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; MANGANESE; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PRECIOUS METALS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SILVER; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

METAL-AIR BATTERY; MNOX; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; SOLAR FUELS; WATER OXIDATION;

MANGANESE OXIDE;

EID: 84944407446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01928     Document Type: Article

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