Changing the Activity of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction by Tuning the Surface Electronic Structure

Authors: Vojislav R. Stamenković, Bongjin Simon Mun, Karl J. J. Mayrhofer, Philip N. Ross, Nenad M. Marković, Jan Rossmeisl, Jeff Greeley, Jens K. Nørskov - Angewandte Chemie 2006 cited by 2,083

Going platinum: The theoretical description of electrocatalytic phenomena is extremely challenging. A simple, density functional theory based model has been developed that is able to give a semiquantitative description of the reaction kinetics for the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction on several platinum binary alloys, Pt3M (see graph).