Giant onsite electronic entropy enhances the performance of ceria for water splitting

Solid-state entropy of reduction increases the thermodynamic efficiency of ceria for two-step thermochemical water splitting. Here, the authors report a large and different source of entropy, the onsite electronic configurational entropy arising from coupling between orbital and spin angular momenta...

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Main Authors: S. Shahab Naghavi, Antoine A. Emery, Heine A. Hansen, Fei Zhou, Vidvuds Ozolins, Chris Wolverton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00381-2