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Questioning the rate law in the analysis of water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes

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Fig. 1: Mechanistic analyses of water oxidation on α-Fe2O3.

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W. Leng acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (project 50971116).

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S.Z. contributed and analysed the data. W.L. found the problem in the Article1 and conceived the manuscript. Both authors discussed the results, co-wrote and commented on the manuscript. W.L. contributed more to this work.

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Zhang, S., Leng, W. Questioning the rate law in the analysis of water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes. Nat. Chem. 12, 1097–1098 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00569-y

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