The in-depth activation mechanism of oxygen species (including lattice oxygen and gaseous oxygen) for catalytic oxidation reactions has not been elucidated and still remains a question on the experime

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Lattice oxygen activation and local electric field enhancement by co-doping Fe and F in CoO nanoneedle arrays for industrial electrocatalytic water oxidation (2024) · doi

  Abstract Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical to renewable energy conversion technologies, but the structure-activity relationships and underlying catalytic mechanisms in catalysts are not fully understood.

  Keywords: abstract oxygen evolution reaction critical renewable energy conversion technologies structure activity relationships underlying catalytic mechanisms
• The Corrosive Cl^–-Induced Rapid Surface Reconstruction of Amorphous NiFeCoP Enables Efficient Seawater Splitting (2024) · doi

  Limited by the violent oxidation and corrosion environment of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in seawater electrolysis, the design of catalysts with high activity and stability is crucial for improving the hydrogen production performance of the electrolysis cell.

  Keywords: electrolysis limited violent oxidation corrosion environment oxygen evolution reaction seawater design catalysts high activity stability
• Phase Engineering Facilitates O–O Coupling via Lattice Oxygen Mechanism for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution on Nickel–Iron Phosphide (2024) · doi

  Nickel–iron-based catalysts are recognized for their high efficiency in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) under alkaline conditions, yet the underlying mechanisms that drive their superior performance remain unclear.

  Keywords: nickel iron based catalysts recognized high efficiency oxygen evolution reaction alkaline conditions underlying mechanisms drive
• Mott–Schottky Construction Boosted Plasmon Thermal and Electronic Effects on the Ag/CoV‐LDH Nanohybrids for Highly‐Efficient Water Oxidation (2024) · doi

  Abstract Mott–Schottky construction and plasmon excitation represent two highly‐efficient and closely‐linked coping strategies to the high energy loss of oxygen evolution reaction (OER), but the combined effect has rarely been investigated.

  Keywords: abstract mott schottky construction plasmon excitation represent highly efficient closely linked coping strategies high energy
• Enhancing Oxygen Evolution Reaction via a Surface Reconstruction-Induced Lattice Oxygen Mechanism (2024) · 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.

  Keywords: oxygen particularly inducing surface structure reconstruction following lattice oxidation mechanism reduce overpotential evolution reaction catalysts
• Ligand‐Tuning Metallic Sites in Molecular Complexes for Efficient Water Oxidation (2024) · doi

  Abstract Metal‐organic hybrid catalysts with highly tunable single‐sites are promising for oxygen‐evolution reaction (OER), but molecular‐scale understanding of underlying reaction mechanisms still remain elusive on these bulk materials.

  Keywords: reaction abstract metal organic hybrid catalysts highly tunable single sites promising oxygen evolution molecular scale
• Recent Advances in Electrochemical Water Splitting and Reduction of CO₂ into Green Fuels on 2D Phosphorene‐Based Catalyst (2020) · doi

  However, the application of 2D phosphorene‐based catalyst in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), reduction of CO 2 into green fuels, and the nitrogen electroreduction reaction (N 2 RR) have not been explored further.

  Keywords: reaction evolution application phosphorene based catalyst hydrogen oxygen reduction green fuels nitrogen electroreduction explored further
• Accelerated Dual Activation of Lattice Oxygen and Molecule Oxygen over CoMn₂O₄ Catalysts for VOC Oxidation: Promoting the Role of Oxygen Vacancies (2024) · doi

  The in-depth activation mechanism of oxygen species (including lattice oxygen and gaseous oxygen) for catalytic oxidation reactions has not been elucidated and still remains a question on the experimental level.

  Keywords: oxygen depth activation mechanism species including lattice gaseous catalytic oxidation reactions elucidated still remains question