READ ME File For 'Dataset for Electronic metal-support interaction enhanced oxygen reduction activity and stability of boron carbide supported platinum'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D00067


This dataset supports the publication:

Jackson, C, Smith, G, Inwood, D, Leach, AS, Whalley, PS, Callisti, M, Polcar, T, Russell, AE, Levecque, P & Kramer, D (2017) 
'Electronic metal-support interaction enhancedoxygen reduction activity and stability of boron carbide supported platinum' 
Nature Communications, vol 8, no. May, 15802. 
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15802

Available under a CC BY licence


Dataset Contents
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This dataset accompanies our paper:

Electronic metal-support interaction enhanced oxygen reduction activity and stability of boron carbide supported platinum

The folders contain plain text files of raw data used in the paper. Please refer to the methods section in the paper for measurement procedures and conditions.

Folder content:

CV:
contains cyclic voltammogram data

Cycling:
contains periodic ECSA measurements using H-UPD as well as pre/post cycling electrochemical characterisation

EXAFS:
extended x-ray absorption fine structure data of Pt supported on BC and C. Proprietary data format can be read with Demeter (https://bruceravel.github.io/demeter)

RDE:
I-V curves obtained with rotation ring electrodes

TEM:
transmission electron microscopy images of all investigated catalysts

XANES:
X-Ray absorption near edge spectra of the Pt L2 and L3 edges of supported Pt nanoparticles in electrochemical environments

XPS:
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy data of investigated catalysts. 

BET:
Instrumental report of BET measurements


Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.


Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence


Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K.


Date: February 2018

Readme file updated on 9th February to add licence information