Voltage- and time-dependent valence state transition in cobalt oxide catalysts during the oxygen evolution reaction

oleh: Jing Zhou, Linjuan Zhang, Yu-Cheng Huang, Chung-Li Dong, Hong-Ji Lin, Chien-Te Chen, L. H. Tjeng, Zhiwei Hu

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01

Deskripsi

Determining catalyst electronic structures during electrochemical reactions is crucial to understand mechanisms. Here authors perform in operando soft X-ray spectroscopy on a cobalt oxide catalyst during O2 evolution and observe voltage and time-dependent valence state transitions.