Water Oxidation by Ru-Polyoxometalate Catalysts: Overpotential Dependency on the Number and Charge of the Metal Centers

Water oxidation is efficiently catalyzed by several Ru-based polyoxometalate (POM) molecular catalysts differing in the number, local atomistic environment and oxidation state of the Ru sites. We employ density functional theory calculations to rationalize the dependency of the reaction overpotentia...

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Main Authors: Simone Piccinin, Stefano Fabris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-09-01
Series:Inorganics
Subjects:
DFT
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6740/3/3/374