Experimental Observation of Redox-Induced Fe-N Switching Behavior as a Determinant Role for Oxygen Reduction Activity

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 12496-12505

  Jia, Qingying ^a   Ramaswamy, Nagappan ^a,d   Hafiz, Hasnain ^a   Tylus, Urszula ^a,c   Strickland, Kara ^a   Wu, Gang ^c,e   Barbiellini, Bernardo ^a   Bansil, Arun ^a   Holby, Edward F ^b   Zelenay, Piotr ^c   Mukerjee, Sanjeev ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

active sites; dynamic structure; non PGM catalysts; oxygen reduction reaction; redox transition

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; IRON COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; REDUCTION; SWITCHING; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

ACTIVE SITE; DYNAMIC STRUCTURE; NON-PGM CATALYSTS; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; REDOX TRANSITION;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

IRON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYSIS; IRON; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84952360860     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05984     Document Type: Article

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