Fortunelli, Alessandro and Goddard, William A., III and Sha, Yao and Yu, Ted H. and Sementa, Luca and Barcaro, Giovanni and Andreussi, Oliviero (2014) Dramatic Increase in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction for Platinum Cathodes from Tuning the Solvent Dielectric Constant. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53 (26). pp. 6669-6672. ISSN 1433-7851. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140603-152723913
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Abstract
Hydrogen fuel cells (FC) are considered essential for a sustainable economy based on carbon-free energy sources, but a major impediment are the costs. First-principles quantum mechanics (density functional theory including solvation) is used to predict how the energies and barriers for the mechanistic steps of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) over the fcc(111) platinum surface depend on the dielectric constant of the solvent. The ORR kinetics can be strongly accelerated by decreasing the effective medium polarizability from the high value it has in water. Possible ways to realize this experimentally are suggested. The calculated volcano structure for the dependence of rate on solvent polarization is considered to be general, and should be observed in other electrochemical systems.
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Additional Information: | © 2014 Wiley-Vch Verlag GmbH & Co. Article first published online: 14 May 2014. This work was supported by a Short-Term Mission (STM) funded by Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), the National Science Foundation (grant number CBET-1067848, Caltech) and by the Caltech and Taiwan Energy Exchange (CTEE) collaborative project funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan (grant number NSC 102-3113-P-008-001).The facilities of the Materials and Process Simulation Center used in this study were established with grants from DURIP-ONR, DURIP-ARO, and NSF-CSEM. | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Fortunelli, A., Goddard, W. A., Sha, Y., Yu, T. H., Sementa, L., Barcaro, G. and Andreussi, O. (2014), Dramatic Increase in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction for Platinum Cathodes from Tuning the Solvent Dielectric Constant. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53: 6669–6672. doi: 10.1002/anie.201403264 | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | ||||||||||||
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