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Published: Jul 17, 2017
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Energy and Environment Division Paul Scherrer Institute Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland; Laboratory for Physical Chemistry ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich Switzerland

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Emiliana Fabbri, Maarten Nachtegaal, Tobias Binninger, et al. (2017). Dynamic surface self-reconstruction is the key of highly active perovskite nano-electrocatalysts for water splitting. Nature Materials, 16(9), 925-931. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4938

Dynamic surface self-reconstruction is the key of highly active perovskite nano-electrocatalysts for water splitting

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