Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity

Electrocatalysis has been one of the hottest research fields in recent years due to the global effort in exploring sustainable energy technologies. The central effort is to develop highly active electrocatalysts for those reactions playing key roles in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and rechargeab...

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Main Authors: Sun, Shengnan, Li, Haiyan, Xu, Zhichuan Jason
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1533532021-12-04T20:11:13Z Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity Sun, Shengnan Li, Haiyan Xu, Zhichuan Jason School of Materials Science and Engineering Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) Solar Fuels Laboratory Engineering::Materials::Energy materials Surface Area Electrocatalysis Electrocatalysis has been one of the hottest research fields in recent years due to the global effort in exploring sustainable energy technologies. The central effort is to develop highly active electrocatalysts for those reactions playing key roles in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and rechargeable metal-air batteries, such as oxygen evolution, oxygen reduction, and hydrogen evolution reactions. A highly active electrocatalyst should be able to promote the reaction rate of the corresponding reaction. In kinetics, the activation energy should be lowered, and, electrochemically, a lowered overpotential should be observed at a certain current density. Ministry of Education (MOE) Accepted version Z.J.X. acknowledges the funding support from the Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 2 Grants (MOE2017- T2-1-009) and the Singapore National Research Foundation under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program. Z.J.X. also thanks The First International Symposium on Electrocatalysis and Electrosynthesis, held in Changsha, China, from March 30 to April 1, 2018, in which the issue of activity evaluation in the literature was raised by valued colleagues and students. 2021-11-25T07:07:31Z 2021-11-25T07:07:31Z 2018 Journal Article Sun, S., Li, H. & Xu, Z. J. (2018). Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity. Joule, 2(6), 1024-1027. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.05.003 2542-4351 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153353 10.1016/j.joule.2018.05.003 2-s2.0-85048623410 6 2 1024 1027 en MOE2017- T2-1-009 Joule © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Joule and is made available with permission of Elsevier Inc. application/pdf
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topic Engineering::Materials::Energy materials
Surface Area
Electrocatalysis
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Surface Area
Electrocatalysis
Sun, Shengnan
Li, Haiyan
Xu, Zhichuan Jason
Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity
description Electrocatalysis has been one of the hottest research fields in recent years due to the global effort in exploring sustainable energy technologies. The central effort is to develop highly active electrocatalysts for those reactions playing key roles in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and rechargeable metal-air batteries, such as oxygen evolution, oxygen reduction, and hydrogen evolution reactions. A highly active electrocatalyst should be able to promote the reaction rate of the corresponding reaction. In kinetics, the activation energy should be lowered, and, electrochemically, a lowered overpotential should be observed at a certain current density.
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Sun, Shengnan
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title Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity
title_short Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity
title_full Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity
title_fullStr Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity
title_full_unstemmed Impact of surface area in evaluation of catalyst activity
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