Particularly, inducing a surface structure reconstruction
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Particularly, inducing a surface structure reconstruction following the lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism (LOM), which can reduce the overpotential in oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts, has not been extensively investigated.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the abstract and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 103 times in total.
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Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Homonuclear/Heteronuclear Bimetallic Conjugated Coordination Polymers with Customized Oxygen Evolution Pathway (2025) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · cited 36× · doi
The reasons for the generally superior performance of synergistic effects in bimetallic catalysts in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are not fully understood, largely due to the complexity of catalyst structures and the challenges associated with synthesizing long-range atomic ordering catalysts.
generalabstractKeywords: catalysts reasons generally superior performance synergistic effects bimetallic oxygen evolution reaction fully understood largely complexity - Enhancing Oxygen Evolution Reaction via a Surface Reconstruction-Induced Lattice Oxygen Mechanism (2024) · ACS Catalysis · cited 67× · doi
Particularly, inducing a surface structure reconstruction following the lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism (LOM), which can reduce the overpotential in oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts, has not been extensively investigated.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: oxygen particularly inducing surface structure reconstruction following lattice oxidation mechanism reduce overpotential evolution reaction catalysts - Visualizing dual-sites synergistic catalysis in non-iridium catalysts for acidic oxygen evolution reaction (2026) · Nature Communications · doi
Further studies are needed to understand the catalytic reaction mechanisms at the atomic and electronic levels. The development of more efficient oxygen evolution reaction catalysts is an area of ongoing research. The use of in situ SRIR spectroscopy for understanding electrochemical interfaces is a promising area of research.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: further studies needed understand catalytic reaction mechanisms atomic
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