Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts

Dear Colleagues,

In spite of the many efforts made during the last decade to restrain pollution and mitigate the consequences of climate change, global temperatures keep rising. This worrying situation makes the quest for clean and efficient energy production/conversion systems mandatory. For this reason, the research on electrocatalytic water splitting has experienced a huge surge of interest. In particular, the development of efficient advanced nanostructured materials for the electrocatalysis of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) —electrocatalytic production of oxygen from water decomposition— has gained great importance. The high cost and low availability of ruthenium(IV) and iridium(IV) oxides (RuO₂ and IrO₂), considered to be the most active OER electrocatalysts, have strongly stimulated the synthesis of alternative high-performance materials. Thus, mixed transition metal oxides, noble metal oxides, layered double hydroxides, metal selenides, carbon-based nanocomposites and single-atom catalysts are just a small sample of the immense variety of compositions and (nano)structuration degrees that have appeared in the last few years. Considering all this innovative activity in the fields of electrocatalysis, energy and nanomaterials, the OER process deserves special attention. For this reason, this Special Issue kindly invites submission for original research articles, as well as reviewing and progressing reports on the production, characterization, and testing of novel electrocatalysts for the primordial oxygen evolution reaction (OER) process.

Submit your paper and select the Journal “Catalysts” and the Special Issue “Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts” via: MDPI submission system. Please contact the Guest Editor or the journal editor ([email protected]) for any queries. Our papers will be published on a rolling basis and we will be pleased to receive your submission once you have finished it.

Dr. Víctor Karim Abdelkader Fernández
Dr. Marta Susete da Silva Nunes
Dr. Diana M. Fernandes
Guest Editors    

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• energy-related reactions
• electrocatalysis
• water splitting
• oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
• nanocomposites
• oxygen production
• metal oxides
• nanostructured carbon materials
• carbon