Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Electronic parameters in cobalt-based perovskite-type oxides as descriptors for chemocatalytic reactions

  • Johannes Simböck,
  • M. Ghiasi,
  • Simon Schönebaum,
  • Ulrich Simon,
  • Frank M. F. de Groot,
  • Regina Palkovits

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14305-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Design of efficient catalysts requires understanding the decisive electronic parameters for catalytic efficacy and their dependence on elemental composition. Here, the authors report covalency as suitable descriptor of perovskite-type transition metal oxides as chemo-catalysts.