Reduced Potential Barrier of Sodium-Substituted Disordered Rocksalt Cathode for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental Section
2.1. Materials and Reagents
2.2. Syntheses of Disordered Cathode Active Material
2.3. Materials Characterization
2.4. ICP-OES
2.5. XPS Data Collection and Analysis
2.6. OER
2.7. DFT Calculations
2.8. Genetic Algorithm
3. Results and Discussion
4. Summary and Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Singh, A.N.; Hajibabaei, A.; Ha, M.; Meena, A.; Kim, H.-S.; Bathula, C.; Nam, K.-W. Reduced Potential Barrier of Sodium-Substituted Disordered Rocksalt Cathode for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13010010
Singh AN, Hajibabaei A, Ha M, Meena A, Kim H-S, Bathula C, Nam K-W. Reduced Potential Barrier of Sodium-Substituted Disordered Rocksalt Cathode for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(1):10. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13010010
Chicago/Turabian StyleSingh, Aditya Narayan, Amir Hajibabaei, Miran Ha, Abhishek Meena, Hyun-Seok Kim, Chinna Bathula, and Kyung-Wan Nam. 2023. "Reduced Potential Barrier of Sodium-Substituted Disordered Rocksalt Cathode for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts" Nanomaterials 13, no. 1: 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13010010