Reveal the mechanism of OER dynamics

Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is one of the key reactions in technologies such as solar water splitting, rechargeable metal-air batteries, renewable fuel cells, and hydrogen production from water electrolysis.
Its slow kinetics restricts the improvement of reaction efficiency
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Yang Haitao, an associate researcher in the N04 group of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Beijing National Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics, and Xu Yingchuan, a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, have devoted themselves to the study of the regulation of electrocatalytic performance by spin polarization in recent years, and have achieved relevant research results
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Recently, Ren Xiao (postdoctoral), Wu Tianze (doctoral student), Sun Yuanmiao (doctoral student) of the joint research team, etc.
, under the guidance of Yang Haitao and Xu Yingchuan, used Co-based 3d transition oxides to achieve spin poles under the action of a magnetic field.
The regulation of chemical electrons and the improvement of the efficiency of OER reaction
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This study puts forward an important concept of total spin conservation on the active site in the OER process, which can optimize the reaction kinetics through quantum spin exchange interactions, and provides a reference for understanding and designing OER catalysts with spin polarization correlation effects Value
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