Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

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

doi:10.1126/science.aad4998

journal article Jan 13, 2017

Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

Zhi Wei Seh

Jakob Kibsgaard

Colin F. Dickens Ib Chorkendorff

Jens K. Nørskov

Thomas F. Jaramillo

Science Vol. 355 No. 6321 · American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Abstract

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.

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Published: Jan 13, 2017
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Zhi Wei Seh

SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.; SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.; Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Innovis, 138634 Singapore.

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Jakob Kibsgaard

SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.; SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.; Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

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Colin F. Dickens

SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.; SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

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Ib Chorkendorff

Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

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Jens K. Nørskov

SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.; SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

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Thomas F. Jaramillo

SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.; SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

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Zhi Wei Seh, Jakob Kibsgaard, Colin F. Dickens, et al. (2017). Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design. Science, 355(6321). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad4998

Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

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