Potato-sized lumps of metal on the seafloor are generating oxygen, a new study has found. Scientists previously believed that oxygen was strictly formed as a byproduct of photosynthesizing plants.
In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." When ...
Figure 2: Direct evidence of lattice oxygen oxidation involved in the OER of 18 O-labelled perovskites. Figure 3: pH-dependent OER activity on the RHE scale. Figure 4: OER mechanisms with concerted ...