articleNature CommunicationsOct 27, 2022GOLD OA

Regulating the scaling relationship for high catalytic kinetics and selectivity of the oxygen reduction reaction

University of Science and Technology of China · National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory · +5 more institutions

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Abstract The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is at the heart of modern sustainable energy technologies. However, the linear scaling relationship of this multistep reaction now becomes the bottleneck for accelerating kinetics. Herein, we propose a strategy of using intermetallic-distance-regulated atomic-scale bimetal assembly (ABA) that can catalyse direct O‒O radical breakage without the formation of redundant *OOH intermediates, which could regulate the inherent linear scaling relationship and cause the ORR on ABA to follow a fast-kinetic dual-sites mechanism. Using in situ synchrotron spectroscopy, we directly observe that a self-adjustable N-bridged Pt = N 2 = Fe assembly promotes the…

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