Congratulations to Jan and Gaetan for their Nature Catalysis paper!
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How do metallic surfaces change during catalytic processes? What drives the continuous motion of atoms at solid/liquid interfaces while molecules are converted one into another?
Understanding copper surface reconstruction during CO2 electroreduction is of the utmost importance to enable the operational stability necessarly for the technological implementation of this CO2 conversion process into valuable chemicals. In this work, we use well-defined nanocatalysts coupled with spectroscopic methods to support a dissolution-redeposition mechanism involving solution-based Cu(I) species which are further elucidated as copper carbonyl and oxalate complexes using density functional theory. Read more details here!