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Published on: July 1, 2016
Effect of thermal motion on catalytic activity of nanoparticles in polar solvent
Nicéphore Bonnet1, Osamu Sugino2, Minoru Otani1
1Nanosystem Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan.
Abstract:
In this study, we propose that electrode potential fluctuations due to the thermal motion of the solvent may serve to enhance the catalytic activity of nanostructures. The proposed model uses a simple, Marcus-type treatment of the statistical behavior of the solvent and the Butler-Volmer law for the instantaneous catalytic rate as a function of the electrode potential. The rapid development of probing techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution will help to further confirm and characterize the dynamical properties of nanostructures.
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