Abstract

In this opinion, the limitations of platinum group metal–free oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst activity based on scaling laws and resulting Balandin-Sabatier volcano plots are presented. Previous theoretical work aimed at overcoming this limitation is discussed. A theoretical study of a novel approach toward catalyst activity improvement, dynamic strain engineering , is proposed and tested for a possible platinum group metal–free oxygen reduction reaction active site. It is shown that not only can this approach produce thermodynamic limiting potentials well beyond scaling law relationship limits but also be capable of doing so in an energy-efficient manner.

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