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Altering/replacing the rare elements and noble metal like platinum (Pt), iridium (Ir) and ruthenium (Ru) with the earth abundant materials towards the energy devices have extended a lot of attention for the improvement of efficient electrocatalyst. In this chapter, we have focused on the earth abundant electrocatalysts primarily used for overall water splitting, oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells, O2C reduction, N2 reduction and detection of pollutants in water samples. The problem related to the non-noble metals electrocatalysts are their poor electrocatalytic activity, restricted active sites and also small mass transport properties. However, recent studies show that earth abundant materials can be a suitable/efficient candidate for these applications with optimized composition and nano-scale particle size, which will definitely accelerate their catalytic activity. In this chapter, we have focused on all these aspects of earth abundant electrocatalysts (EAEs) and discussed their future perspectives also.

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  2. of Nanosystem & Hierarchical Fabrication, Cas Key Laboratory, Beijing, China

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  3. Department of Chemsitry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah M. Asiri

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Majhi, K.C., Karfa, P., Madhuri, R. (2020). Earth Abundant Electrocatalyst. In: Inamuddin, Boddula, R., Asiri, A. (eds) Methods for Electrocatalysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27161-9_1

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