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Tao C, Jiang Y, Ding Y, Jia B, Liu R, Li P, Yang W, Xia L, Sun L, Zhang B. Surface Reconstruction and Passivation of BiVO 4 Photoanodes Depending on the "Structure Breaker" Cs . JACS AU 2023; 3:1851-1863. [PMID: 37502161 PMCID: PMC10369408 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
Abstract
Monoclinic BiVO4 is one of the most promising photoanode materials for solar water splitting. The photoelectrochemical performance of a BiVO4 photoanode could be significantly influenced by the noncovalent interactions of redox-inert metal cations at the photoanode-electrolyte interfaces, but this point has not been well investigated. In this work, we studied the Cs+-dependent surface reconstruction and passivation of BiVO4 photoanodes. Owing to the "structure breaker" nature of Cs+, the Cs+ at the BiVO4 photoanode-electrolyte interfaces participated in BiVO4 surface photocorrosion to form a Cs+-doped bismuth vanadium oxide amorphous thin layer, which inhibited the continuous photocorrosion of BiVO4 and promoted surface charge transfer and water oxidation. The resulting cocatalyst-free BiVO4 photoanodes achieved 3.3 mA cm-2 photocurrent for water oxidation. With the modification of FeOOH catalysts, the photocurrent at 1.23 VRHE reached 5.1 mA cm-2, and a steady photocurrent of 3.0 mA cm-2 at 0.8 VRHE was maintained for 30 h. This work provides new insights into the understanding of Cs+ chemistry and the effects of redox-inert cations at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces.
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- Chen Tao
- College
of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, Liaoning, China
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- College
of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, Liaoning, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- College
of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, Liaoning, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang, China
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Yang X, Zheng B, Wang Y, Li Y, Liu Q, Pan L. Cs
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/Alcohol Promoted[4C+2C]Annulation: ASynthetic Strategy for Polysubstituted Phenols. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202000435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Xiaohui Yang
- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular, Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Northeast Normal University Changchun 130024 P. R. China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular, Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Northeast Normal University Changchun 130024 P. R. China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular, Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Northeast Normal University Changchun 130024 P. R. China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular, Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Northeast Normal University Changchun 130024 P. R. China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular, Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Northeast Normal University Changchun 130024 P. R. China
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- Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Organic Functional Molecular, Design & Synthesis, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Northeast Normal University Changchun 130024 P. R. China
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Lee H, Wu X, Sun L. Copper-based homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for electrochemical water oxidation. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:4187-4218. [PMID: 32022815 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr10437b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Water oxidation is currently believed to be the bottleneck in the field of electrochemical water splitting and artificial photosynthesis. Enormous efforts have been devoted toward the exploration of water oxidation catalysts (WOCs), including homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. Recently, Cu-based WOCs have been widely developed because of their high abundance, low cost, and biological relevance. However, to the best of our knowledge, no review has been made so far on such types of catalysts. Thus, we have summarized the recent progress made in the development of homogeneous and heterogeneous Cu-based WOCs for electrochemical catalysis. Furthermore, the evaluations of catalytic activity, stability, and mechanism of these catalysts are carefully concluded and highlighted. We believe that this review can summarize the current progress in the field of Cu-based electrochemical WOCs and help in the design of more efficient and stable WOCs.
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- Husileng Lee
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 116024 Dalian, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 116024 Dalian, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 116024 Dalian, China. and Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden and Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian 116024, China
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Conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons using solar energy is an attractive strategy for storing such a renewable source of energy into the form of chemical energy (a fuel). This can be achieved in a system coupling a photovoltaic (PV) cell to an electrochemical cell (EC) for CO2 reduction. To be beneficial and applicable, such a system should use low-cost and easily processable photovoltaic cells and display minimal energy losses associated with the catalysts at the anode and cathode and with the electrolyzer device. In this work, we have considered all of these parameters altogether to set up a reference PV-EC system for CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons. By using the same original and efficient Cu-based catalysts at both electrodes of the electrolyzer, and by minimizing all possible energy losses associated with the electrolyzer device, we have achieved CO2 reduction to ethylene and ethane with a 21% energy efficiency. Coupled with a state-of-the-art, low-cost perovskite photovoltaic minimodule, this system reaches a 2.3% solar-to-hydrocarbon efficiency, setting a benchmark for an inexpensive all-earth-abundant PV-EC system.
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Copper Containing Molecular Systems in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation—Trends and Perspectives. Catalysts 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/catal9010083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Molecular design represents an exciting platform to refine mechanistic details of electrocatalytic water oxidation and explore new perspectives. In the growing number of publications some general trends seem to be outlined concerning the operation mechanisms, with the help of experimental and theoretical approaches that have been broadly applied in the case of bioinorganic systems. In this review we focus on bio-inspired Cu-containing complexes that are classified according to the proposed mechanistic pathways and the related experimental evidence, strongly linked to the applied ligand architecture. In addition, we devote special attention to features of molecular compounds, which have been exploited in the efficient fabrication of catalytically active thin films.
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Kuilya H, Alam N, Sarma D, Choudhury D, Kalita A. Ligand assisted electrocatalytic water oxidation by a copper(ii) complex in neutral phosphate buffer. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:5483-5486. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc00971j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Electrocatalytic water oxidation activity of a copper(ii) complex, 1, [Cu(L1H)(L1)(OH2)](ClO4), with a redox active aryl oxime ligand, L1H [L1H = 1-(pyridin-2-yl) ethanone oxime] has been investigated.
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- Hemrupa Kuilya
- Department of Chemistry
- B. Borooah College
- Guwahati 781007
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Patna 801103
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Patna 801103
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- B. Borooah College
- Guwahati 781007
- India
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Hu QQ, Su XJ, Zhang MT. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by an Unsymmetrical Di-Copper Complex. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:10481-10484. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Qin-Qin Hu
- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Center of Basic Molecular Science (CBMS), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Farid S, Ren S, Hao C. MOF-derived metal/carbon materials as oxygen evolution reaction catalysts. INORG CHEM COMMUN 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2018.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Stott LA, Prosser KE, Berdichevsky EK, Walsby CJ, Warren JJ. Lowering water oxidation overpotentials using the ionisable imidazole of copper(2-(2'-pyridyl)imidazole). Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:651-654. [PMID: 27990513 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09208j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Rapid and low overpotential oxidation of water to dioxygen remains a key hurdle for storage of solar energy. Here, we address this issue by demonstrating that deprotonation of 2-(2'-pyridyl)-imidazole (pimH)-ligated copper complexes promotes water oxidation at low overpotential and low catalyst loading. This improves upon other work on homogeneous copper-based water oxidation catalysts, which are highly active, but limited by high overpotentials. EPR and UV-vis spectroscopic evaluation of catalyst speciation shows that at pH ≥ 12 coordinated pimH is deprotonated and a bis(hydroxide) Cu2+ active catalyst forms. Rapid electrochemical water oxidation (35 s-1, 0.85 V onset potential) was observed with 150 μM catalyst. These results demonstrate that catalytic water oxidation potentials can be shifted by hundreds of mV in homogeneous metal catalysts bearing an ionisable imidazole ligand.
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- Leea A Stott
- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6, Canada. and Canadian Institute for Applied Research, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar and Bio-Inspired Solar Energy Programs, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z8, Canada
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Koepke SJ, Light KM, VanNatta PE, Wiley KM, Kieber-Emmons MT. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Homogeneous Copper Catalyst Disfavors Single-Site Mechanisms. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:8586-8600. [PMID: 28558469 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Deployment of solar fuels derived from water requires robust oxygen-evolving catalysts made from earth abundant materials. Copper has recently received much attention in this regard. Mechanistic parallels between Cu and single-site Ru/Ir/Mn water oxidation catalysts, including intermediacy of terminal Cu oxo/oxyl species, are prevalent in the literature; however, intermediacy of late transition metal oxo species would be remarkable given the high d-electron count would fill antibonding orbitals, making these species high in energy. This may suggest alternate pathways are at work in copper-based water oxidation. This report characterizes a dinuclear copper water oxidation catalyst, {[(L)Cu(II)]2-(μ-OH)2}(OTf)2 (L = Me2TMPA = bis((6-methyl-2-pyridyl)methyl)(2-pyridylmethyl)amine) in which water oxidation proceeds with high Faradaic efficiency (>90%) and moderate rates (33 s-1 at ∼1 V overpotential, pH 12.5). A large kinetic isotope effect (kH/kD = 20) suggests proton coupled electron transfer in the initial oxidation as the rate-determining step. This species partially dissociates in aqueous solution at pH 12.5 to generate a mononuclear {[(L)Cu(II)(OH)]}+ adduct (Keq = 0.0041). Calculations that reproduce the experimental findings reveal that oxidation of either the mononuclear or dinuclear species results in a common dinuclear intermediate, {[LCu(III)]2-(μ-O)2}2+, which avoids formation of terminal Cu(IV)═O/Cu(III)-O• intermediates. Calculations further reveal that both intermolecular water nucleophilic attack and redox isomerization of {[LCu(III)]2-(μ-O)2}2+ are energetically accessible pathways for O-O bond formation. The consequences of these findings are discussed in relation to differences in water oxidation pathways between Cu catalysts and catalysts based on Ru, Ir, and Mn.
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- Sara J Koepke
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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Huang HH, Wang JW, Sahoo P, Zhong DC, Lu TB. Electrocatalytic water oxidation by Cu(ii) ions in a neutral borate buffer solution. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:9324-9327. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cc04834c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Herein we report that a Cu(ii) salt can efficiently catalyze water oxidation in a neutral borate buffer.
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- Hai-Hua Huang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry
- School of Chemistry
- Sun Yat-Sen University
- Guangzhou 510275
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry
- School of Chemistry
- Sun Yat-Sen University
- Guangzhou 510275
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry
- School of Chemistry
- Sun Yat-Sen University
- Guangzhou 510275
- China
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- Institute of New Energy Materials & Low Carbon Technology
- School of Material Science & Engineering
- Tianjin University of Technology
- Tianjin 300384
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry
- School of Chemistry
- Sun Yat-Sen University
- Guangzhou 510275
- China
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Szyrwiel Ł, Lukács D, Srankó DF, Kerner Z, Kotynia A, Brasuń J, Setner B, Szewczuk Z, Malec K, Pap JS. Armed by Asp? C-terminal carboxylate in a Dap-branched peptide and consequences in the binding of CuII and electrocatalytic water oxidation. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra03814c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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C-Terminal carboxylate in branched peptide allows insight into water oxidation electrocatalysis by Cu-complexes, revealing differences to homologues with varied modules.
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- Łukasz Szyrwiel
- Dept. of Chemistry of Drugs
- Wrocław Medical Univ
- 50-552 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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- Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry
- Wrocław Medical University
- 50-552 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry
- Wrocław Medical University
- 50-552 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry
- Univ. of Wrocław
- 50-383 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Dept. of Chemistry of Drugs
- Wrocław Medical Univ
- 50-552 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Dept
- MTA Centre for Energy Research
- Hungary
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