Potential Dependence of Electrochemical Barriers from ab Initio Calculations

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1686-1690

  Chan, Karen ^a,b   Nørskov, Jens K ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL KINETICS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; PARTIAL CHARGES; POTENTIAL DEPENDENCE; TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; TRANSITION STATE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 84968906555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00382     Document Type: Article

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