Engineering electrocatalytic activity in nanosized perovskite cobaltite through surface spin-state transition

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Shiming ^a   Miao, Xianbing ^a   Zhao, Xu ^a   Ma, Chao ^a   Qiu, Yuhao ^b   Hu, Zhenpeng ^b,c   Zhao, Jiyin ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Zeng, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; NANOPARTICLE; PEROVSKITE;

CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; COBALT; COBALTITE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLE; ORBIT DETERMINATION; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; PEROVSKITE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NANOENGINEERING;

EID: 84968909177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11510     Document Type: Article

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