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History, Progress, and Development of Electrocatalysis

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This chapter reviews the history, the progress, development and achievement of electrocatalysis. We introduce some practical examples for electrochemical reactions as CO2 reduction, hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction reaction. Some examples of these anchored reaction using differents electrocatalysts cited metal oxide, carbon based material, alloy material, noble and precious metal, layered electrocatalytic materials, platinum-based electrocatalysts and electrocatalysts without Pt are cited.

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Boudjemaa, A. (2020). History, Progress, and Development of Electrocatalysis. In: Inamuddin, Boddula, R., Asiri, A. (eds) Methods for Electrocatalysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27161-9_16

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