@article{
author = "Petrović, Predrag and Goberna Ferrón, Sara and Stanley, George and Zarić, Snežana D. and Fox, Thomas and Brothers, Edward N. and Sheehan, Stafford W. and Anastas, Paul T. and Patzke, Greta R. and Bloomfield, Aaron J. and Mooré, René and Triana, C.A.",
year = "2019",
abstract = "Disordered materials with resilient and soft-templated functional units bear the
potential to fill the pipeline of robust catalysts for renewable energy storage.
However, for novel materials lacking long-range order, the ability to discern
local structure with atomic resolution still pushes the boundaries of current
analytical and modeling approaches. We introduce a two-pillar strategy to
monitor the formation and unravel the structure of the first disordered onedimensional cobalt coordination polymer catalyst, Co-dppeO2. This target
material excels through proven high performance in commercial alkaline
electrolyzers and organic transformations. We demonstrate that the key architecture behind this activity is the unconventional embedding of hydrated
{H2O-Co2(OH)2-OH2} edge-site motifs, nested into a flexible organic matrix of
highly oxidized and bridging hydrophobic dppeO2 ligands. Our combination
of in situ spectroscopy and computational modeling of X-ray scattering and
absorption spectra, backed with complementary experimental techniques,
holds the key to understanding the atomic-range structure of important
disordered materials.",
publisher = "Cell Press",
journal = "Matter",
title = "Soft Templating and Disorder in an Applied 1D
Cobalt Coordination Polymer Electrocatalyst",
volume = "1",
number = "5",
pages = "1354-1369",
doi = "10.1016/j.matt.2019.06.021"
}