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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 165, Issue 15, Pages J3199-J3208Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0261815jes
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- ERA.NET.RUS.PLUS project [270 NANO-Morf]
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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In this study we combine experimental rotating ring disc electrode data, theory, molecular-level modeling and microkinetic simulations in order to gain a deeper insight into the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) mechanism on simple manganese oxides in alkaline media. We demonstrate that thermodynamic approach based on periodical density functional theory calculations is unable to explain the experimentally observed differences in the ORR kinetics on the most (alpha-Mn2O3) and the least (alpha-MnOOH) active oxide. We perform quantum mechanical cluster calculations and show that faster kinetics of the hydrogen peroxide reduction on the surface of Mn2O3 oxide and the ensuing lower peroxide yield during the ORR are corroborated by the lower barrier for the dissociation of hydrogen peroxide adsorbed on the surface of Mn2O3 arising from adsorbate-adsorbate interactions. We provide the arguments in favor of the outersphere nature of initial O-2 reduction steps and demonstrate that this hypothesis does not contradict the experimental trends observed for ORR and hydrogen peroxide reduction reactions on Mn2O3 and MnOOH. (C) The Author(s) 2018. Published by ECS.
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