The stability challenges of oxygen evolving catalysts: towards a common fundamental understanding and mitigation of catalyst degradation

C Spöri, JTH Kwan, A Bonakdarpour… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Review addresses the technical challenges, scientific basis, recent progress, and
outlook with respect to the stability and degradation of catalysts for the oxygen evolution …

Role of Transition Metals in Pt Alloy Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

C Lim, AR Fairhurst, BJ Ransom, D Haering… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In pursuit of higher activity and stability of electrocatalysts toward the oxygen reduction
reaction, it has become standard practice to alloy platinum in various structural …

In Situ and Operando X-ray Scattering Methods in Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis

OM Magnussen, J Drnec, C Qiu, I Martens… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical and electrocatalytic processes are of key importance for the transition to a
sustainable energy supply as well as for a wide variety of other technologically relevant …

Direct instrumental identification of catalytically active surface sites

JHK Pfisterer, Y Liang, O Schneider, AS Bandarenka - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The activity of heterogeneous catalysts—which are involved in some 80 per cent of
processes in the chemical and energy industries—is determined by the electronic structure …

Surface science studies of model fuel cell electrocatalysts

NM Marković, PN Ross Jr - Surface Science Reports, 2002 - Elsevier
The purpose of this review is to discuss progress in the understanding of electrocatalytic
reactions through the study of model systems with surface spectroscopies. Pure metal single …

Relationships between atomic level surface structure and stability/activity of platinum surface atoms in aqueous environments

PP Lopes, D Strmcnik, D Tripkovic, JG Connell… - Acs …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The development of alternative energy systems for the clean production, storage, and
conversion of energy is strongly dependent on our ability to understand, at atomic molecular …

Functional links between Pt single crystal morphology and nanoparticles with different size and shape: the oxygen reduction reaction case

D Li, C Wang, DS Strmcnik, DV Tripkovic… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Design of active and stable Pt-based nanoscale electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) will be the key to improving the efficiency of fuel cells that are needed to …

The road from animal electricity to green energy: combining experiment and theory in electrocatalysis

J Greeley, NM Markovic - Energy & Environmental Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Advances in the field of electrocatalysis over the past several decades have been driven
both by improvements in fundamental techniques for probing the solid–liquid …

Step bunching instability and its effects in electrocatalysis on platinum surfaces

F Valls Mascaró, MTM Koper, MJ Rost - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
The atomic-scale surface structure plays a major role in the electrochemical behaviour of a
catalyst. The electrocatalytic activity towards many relevant reactions, such as the oxygen …

Electrochemical characterization of shape-controlled Pt nanoparticles in different supporting electrolytes

FJ Vidal-Iglesias, RM Arán-Ais, J Solla-Gullón… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The voltammetric profile of preferentially shaped platinum nanoparticles has been used to
analyze the different sites present on the surface. For the first time, this analysis has been …