Spin Matters: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap to Understanding Spin Effects in Oxygen Evolution Reaction During Water Electrolysis

Published: 10 October 2025

In this review paper led by Chris Baeumer’s group at University of Twente, we highlight the recent advances in the field of spin-enhanced electrocatalysis, representing a growing field of research. Complex oxides are one material class, showing both magnetic orders as well as high electrocatalytic performances, rendering complex oxides such as (La,Sr)MnO₃ as model system to explore spin-polarization mediated activity changes. This review reflect a collaborative effort, including a PGI-7 contribution on a systematic model system approach, which we follow for the past few years in our group.

Journal: Advanced Energy Materials, Review article, OPEN ACCESS, issue/pages e03556 S2025, e03556
Authors: Emma van der Minne, Priscila Vensaus, Vadim Ratovskii, Seenivasan Hariharan, Jan Behrends, Cesare Franchini, Jonas Fransson, Sarnjeet S. Dhesi, Felix Gunkel, Florian Gossing, Georgios Katsoukis, Ulrike I. Kramm, Magalí Lingenfelder, Qianqian Lan, Yury V. Kolen'ko, Yang Li, Ramsundar Rani Mohan, Jeffrey McCord, Lingmei Ni, Eva Pavarini, Rossitza Pentcheva, David H. Waldeck, Michael Verhage, Anke Yu, Zhichuan J. Xu, Piero Torelli, Silvia Mauri, Narcis Avarvari, Anja Bieberle-Hütter, Christoph Baeumer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202503556

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