Toward Realistic Models of the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Los Alamos National Laboratory · Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society · +2 more institutions
Abstract
The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) supplies the protons and electrons needed to transform renewable electricity into chemicals and fuels. However, the OER is kinetically sluggish; it operates at significant rates only when the applied potential far exceeds the reversible voltage. The origin of this overpotential is hidden in a complex mechanism involving multiple electron transfers and chemical bond making/breaking steps. Our desire to improve catalytic performance has then made mechanistic studies of the OER an area of major scientific inquiry, though the complexity of the reaction has made understanding difficult. While historically, mechanistic studies have relied solely on experiment and…
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3Topics & keywords
- Overpotential
- Oxygen evolution
- Chemistry
- Mechanism (biology)
- Reaction mechanism
- Catalysis
- Biochemical engineering
- Chemical physics