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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Chirality enhances oxygen reduction.

Yutao Sang, Francesco Tassinari, Kakali Santra, Wenyan Zhang, Claudio Fontanesi, Brian P Bloom, David H Waldeck, Jonas Fransson, Ron Naaman

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Chiral-Encoded Pt-Ir Surfaces as Apparent Spin Filter for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. Synergistic Spin-Mediated Catalysis for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  14. Decoupling Activity and Specificity in Coronazymes.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  16. Direct control of electron spin at an intrinsically chiral surface for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  17. Chiral Phonons Enhance Ferromagnetism.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Yutao SangDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1170-7362
Francesco TassinariDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-4652-9789
Kakali SantraDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Wenyan ZhangDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Claudio FontanesiDepartment of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari," University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1183-2406
Brian P BloomChemistry Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
David H WaldeckChemistry Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
Jonas FranssonDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9217-2218
Ron NaamanDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1910-366X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Controlled reduction of oxygen is important for developing clean energy technologies, such as fuel cells, and is vital to the existence of aerobic organisms. The process starts with oxygen in a triplet ground state and ends with products that are all in singlet states. Hence, spin constraints in the oxygen reduction must be considered. Here, we show that the electron transfer efficiency from chiral electrodes to oxygen (oxygen reduction reaction) is enhanced over that from achiral electrodes. We demonstrate lower overpotentials and higher current densities for chiral catalysts versus achiral ones. This finding holds even for electrodes composed of heavy metals with large spin-orbit coupling. The effect results from the spin selectivity conferred on the electron current by the chiral assemblies, the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect.

Indexed as

ElectronsOxygenCatalysisElectrodesElectron TransportOxidation-ReductionOxygenchiralityfuel cellsoxygenrespirationspin

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PMID35858429
PMCPMC9335305

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