It is known that hydroxide adsorbed on catalyst surface are utilized for MeOH electrooxidation prior to OER and ultimately once the potential crosses the OER regime, adsorbed OH -also participates for OER. Thus, OH -is the common reactive species for OER as well methanol. Both OER and methanol electro-oxidation occurs using hydroxyls as per69 the following reactions: One can now explain the elevated OER in presence of methanol. Methanol chemisorbs dissociative onto the LSCO surface as methoxy and hydroxyl (Figure ). After this chemisorption, methanol oxidizes utilizing hydroxyl to form CO2 via formate route as stated earlier. Thus, one can anticipate that methanol adsorption creates hydroxyls over the surface in addition to the hydroxyls forming during OER and in this way concentration of hydroxyls increase as a result of methanol adsorption. Clearly, the OER rate increases in presence of methanol due to enhanced hydroxyls concentration. Thus, the enhanced OER in presence of methanol is purely a kinetic phenomenon and can be simply termed as the methanol assisted water oxidation.