Water electrolysis on La1-xSrxCoO3-δ perovskite electrocatalysts

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mefford, J Tyler ^a   Rong, Xi ^b   Abakumov, Artem M ^c,d   Hardin, William G ^e   Dai, Sheng ^f   Kolpak, Alexie M ^b   Johnston, Keith P ^e   Stevenson, Keith J ^a,c,e  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTHANUM; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; STRONTIUM; WATER;

ALKALINE WATER; CATALYST; COBALTITE; ELECTROKINESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEROVSKITE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE AREA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84962320126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11053     Document Type: Article

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