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Developments and perspectives of oxide-based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Developments and perspectives of oxide-based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction To support a sustainable economic growth, it has become more and more important that the energy utilization efficiency and the renewable energy implementation should be further exploited. Primary renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, have the advantages of being sustainable and relatively benign in terms of impact on the environment and human health. However, a significant disadvantage of most renewable energy sources is that they are intermittent on daily, seasonal and also regional scales with considerable variability in supply. This uncertainty in energy supply can be eliminated by connecting a local energy storage system to an electricity producing unit.1 In this framework, water electrolysers can play a fundamental role in the development of a sustainable energy system. Water electrolysers are electrochemical energy conversion devices producing hydrogen (and oxygen) from the intermittent energy source. The hydrogen energy vector represents an alternative to electricity storage in batteries since its reconversion into electricity via fuel cells opens up independent scaling of power and energy due to the separation of the hydrogen storage from the conversion device. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Catalysis Science & Technology Royal Society of Chemistry

Developments and perspectives of oxide-based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

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Royal Society of Chemistry
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2044-4753
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10.1039/c4cy00669k
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Abstract

To support a sustainable economic growth, it has become more and more important that the energy utilization efficiency and the renewable energy implementation should be further exploited. Primary renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, have the advantages of being sustainable and relatively benign in terms of impact on the environment and human health. However, a significant disadvantage of most renewable energy sources is that they are intermittent on daily, seasonal and also regional scales with considerable variability in supply. This uncertainty in energy supply can be eliminated by connecting a local energy storage system to an electricity producing unit.1 In this framework, water electrolysers can play a fundamental role in the development of a sustainable energy system. Water electrolysers are electrochemical energy conversion devices producing hydrogen (and oxygen) from the intermittent energy source. The hydrogen energy vector represents an alternative to electricity storage in batteries since its reconversion into electricity via fuel cells opens up independent scaling of power and energy due to the separation of the hydrogen storage from the conversion device.

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Catalysis Science & Technology – Royal Society of Chemistry

Published: Oct 6, 2014

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