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The scaling relationship among reaction intermediates with strongly correlated adsorption energy in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) severely restricts the energy-conversion efficiency of water electrolysis. For the conventional adsorbate evolution mechanism, breaking the scaling relationship remains challenging, as it is difficult to modulate the adsorption of multiple intermediates on a specific active site simultaneously. Herein, we utilize the electron buffering effect of a two-dimensional fullerene network (CNET) to dynamically tune the electronic structure of the iridium (Ir) active site with the change of adsorbed intermediates, which can tailor the adsorption strength of intermediates from multistep reactions and break the adsorption-energy scaling relationships among *OOH, *O, and *OH. The CNET-buffered Ir nanocluster catalyst exhibits excellent OER activity with a low overpotential of 237 mV and stability over 600 h at 10 mA cm, outperforming graphene-supported Ir nanoclusters and commercial IrO, attributed to the breaking of the linear scaling relationship enabled by the unique ability to reversibly accept and donate electrons of CNET.
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BMC Psychol
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
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State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery, East China University of Science and Technol
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Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, 230601, He Fei, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, 230032, Hefei, China; Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, 230032, Hefei,
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Diabetes Res Clin Pract
September 2025
University of Miami, Pediatrics, 1601 NW 12(th) Ave, Miami, FL 33136, the United States of America. Electronic address:
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