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ArticleNature communications2020

Turning main-group element magnesium into a highly active electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction.

Shuai Liu, Zedong Li, Changlai Wang, Weiwei Tao, Minxue Huang, Ming Zuo, Yang Yang, Kang Yang, Lijuan Zhang, Shi Chen and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 404 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shuai LiuHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6782-7983
Zedong LiHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Changlai WangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-4709
Weiwei TaoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Minxue HuangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Ming ZuoHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Yang YangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Kang YangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Lijuan ZhangShanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Shi ChenHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6130-6631
Pengping XuHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Qianwang ChenHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China. cqw@ustc.edu.cn.
University of Science and Technology of China · CNBoston University · USChinese Academy of Sciences · CNShanghai Institute of Applied Physics · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is known that the main-group metals and their related materials show poor catalytic activity due to a broadened single resonance derived from the interaction of valence orbitals of adsorbates with the broad sp-band of main-group metals. However, Mg cofactors existing in enzymes are extremely active in biochemical reactions. Our density function theory calculations reveal that the catalytic activity of the main-group metals (Mg, Al and Ca) in oxygen reduction reaction is severely hampered by the tight-bonding of active centers with hydroxyl group intermediate, while the Mg atom coordinated to two nitrogen atoms has the near-optimal adsorption strength with intermediate oxygen species by the rise of p-band center position compared to other coordination environments. We experimentally demonstrate that the atomically dispersed Mg cofactors incorporated within graphene framework exhibits a strikingly high half-wave potential of 910 mV in alkaline media, turning a s/p-band metal into a highly active electrocatalyst.

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