<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ramsundar, Rani Mohan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pillai, Vijayamohanan Kunjukrishna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joy, Pattayil Alias</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> Spin state engineered ZnxCo3-xO4 as an efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalyst </style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Physical Chemistry Chemuical Physics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DEC</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">29452-29461</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxygen evolution is the key step in the oxidation of water in electrolyzers and photoelectrochemical cells for the production of hydrogen. Developing a non-precious metal oxide catalyst with good electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is very challenging. In this work, nanostructured ZnxCo3-xO4 has been shown as an efficient catalyst with a low overpotential for the OER in 0.1 M KOH solution. Substitution of Co2+ in the spinel oxide Co3O4 with Zn2+ creates a higher number of high-spin Co3+, which is found to be directly correlated with the OER activity of ZnxCo3-xO4. Zn0.8Co2.2O4 (x = 0.8) with the optimum amount of Co2+/Co3+ and high-spin Co3+ content showed a very low overpotential of approximate to 250 mV, at 10 mA cm(-2), with a turnover frequency of approximate to 3 x 10(-3) s(-1) for the OER. The high Faradaic efficiency along with the stability of Zn0.8Co2.2O4 and electrocatalytic activity comparable with that of precious metal oxides indicate that this composition is a promising catalyst for water oxidation.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">46</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Article </style></work-type><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Foreign</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3.906</style></custom4></record></records></xml>