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Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

2017; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 355; Issue: 6321 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.aad4998

ISSN

1095-9203

Autores

Zhi Wei Seh, Jakob Kibsgaard, Colin F. Dickens, Ib Chorkendorff, Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas F. Jaramillo,

Tópico(s)

CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Resumo

Better living through water-splitting Chemists have known how to use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for more than 200 years. Nonetheless, because the electrochemical route is inefficient, most of the hydrogen made nowadays comes from natural gas. Seh et al. review recent progress in electrocatalyst development to accelerate water-splitting, the reverse reactions that underlie fuel cells, and related oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide reductions. A unified theoretical framework highlights the need for catalyst design strategies that selectively stabilize distinct reaction intermediates relative to each other. Science , this issue p. 10.1126/science.aad4998

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