Water oxidation is crucial for energy conversion
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ABSTRACT Water oxidation is crucial for energy conversion and storage technologies, but its efficiency is limited by the spin‐flip characteristics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).
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Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 60 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Modulating Iridium Coordination to Control the Oxygen Evolution Reaction Pathway (2025) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · cited 37× · doi
Tailoring the coordination number of active sites can potentially shift the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) pathway from the traditional adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM) to the highly active lattice oxygen mechanism (LOM), but effective synthesis approaches are lacking.
generalabstractKeywords: active oxygen evolution mechanism tailoring coordination number sites potentially shift reaction pathway traditional adsorbate highly - Zwitterionic ‐Molecule‐Driven Synergistic Coupling of Dual OER Pathways and Interfacial Water Dynamics for Efficient Alkaline Water Electrolysis (2026) · Advanced Energy Materials · cited 23× · doi
ABSTRACT Coupling the adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM) and lattice oxygen mechanism (LOM) for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), along with tuning interfacial water structure for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), offers a promising yet underexplored strategy for achieving efficient and stable overall water splitting.
generalabstractKeywords: evolution mechanism oxygen reaction water abstract coupling adsorbate lattice along tuning interfacial structure hydrogen offers - Tailoring Local Spin Interactions in Trinuclear Iron‐Based Catalysts for Water Oxidation (2026) · Chemistry – A European Journal · doi
ABSTRACT Water oxidation is crucial for energy conversion and storage technologies, but its efficiency is limited by the spin‐flip characteristics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: abstract water oxidation crucial energy conversion storage technologies efficiency limited spin flip characteristics oxygen evolution
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