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Nano-size layered manganese–calcium oxide as an efficient and biomimetic catalyst for water oxidation under acidic conditions: comparable to platinum

Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour,*ab  Kevin C. Leonard,c  Fu-Ren F. Fan,c  Mahmoud Amouzadeh Tabrizi,a  Allen J. Bard,*c  Cecil K. King'ondu,d  Steven L. Suib,de  Behzad Haghighiab  and  Suleyman I. Allakhverdievfg 
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a Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran
E-mail: mmnajafpour@iasbs.ac.ir
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Tel: (+98) 241 415 3201

b Center of Climate Change and Global Warming, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Iran

c Center for Electrochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
E-mail: ajbard@mail.utexas.edu
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Tel: (+7) 496 7731 837

d Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Rd., Unit 3060, Storrs, USA

e Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

f Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow 127276, Russia

g Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region 142290, Russia

Abstract

Inspired by Nature's catalyst, a nano-size layered manganese–calcium oxide showed a low overvoltage for water oxidation in acidic solutions, which is comparable to platinum.

Graphical abstract: Nano-size layered manganese–calcium oxide as an efficient and biomimetic catalyst for water oxidation under acidic conditions: comparable to platinum

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The article was received on 29 Nov 2012, accepted on 24 Jan 2013 and first published on 24 Jan 2013


Article type: Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3DT32864C
Citation: Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 5085-5091

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    Nano-size layered manganese–calcium oxide as an efficient and biomimetic catalyst for water oxidation under acidic conditions: comparable to platinum

    M. M. Najafpour, K. C. Leonard, F. F. Fan, M. A. Tabrizi, A. J. Bard, C. K. King'ondu, S. L. Suib, B. Haghighi and S. I. Allakhverdiev, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 5085
    DOI: 10.1039/C3DT32864C

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