Bifunctional Oxygen Reaction Catalysis of Quadruple Manganese Perovskites.

Yamada, Ikuya; Fujii, Hiroshi; Takamatsu, Akihiko; Ikeno, Hidekazu; Wada, Kouhei; Tsukasaki, Hirofumi; Kawaguchi, Shogo; Mori, Shigeo et al. · Adv Mater · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution/reduction reaction (OER/ORR) are desirable for the development of energy conversion technologies. It is discovered that the manganese quadruple perovskites CaMn<sub>7</sub> O<sub>12</sub> and LaMn<sub>7</sub> O<sub>12</sub> show bifunctional catalysis in the OER/ORR. A possible origin of the high OER activity is the unique surface structure through corner-shared planar MnO<sub>4</sub> and octahedral MnO<sub>6</sub> units to promote direct OO bond formations.