Recent advances in activating surface reconstruction for the high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction

L Gao, X Cui, CD Sewell, J Li, Z Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A climax in the development of cost-effective and high-efficiency transition metal-based
electrocatalysts has been witnessed recently for sustainable energy and related conversion …

Multiscale CO2 Electrocatalysis to C2+ Products: Reaction Mechanisms, Catalyst Design, and Device Fabrication

T Yan, X Chen, L Kumari, J Lin, M Li, Q Fan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrosynthesis of value-added chemicals, directly from CO2, could foster achievement of
carbon neutral through an alternative electrical approach to the energy-intensive …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic-scale surface restructuring of copper electrodes under CO2 electroreduction conditions

R Amirbeigiarab, J Tian, A Herzog, C Qiu… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Potentiodynamic methods that induce structural changes in Cu catalysts for the
electrochemical reduction of CO2 (CO2RR) have been identified as a promising strategy for …

Tailoring the Catalytic Microenvironment of Cu2O with SiO2 to Enhance C2+ Product Selectivity in CO2 Electroreduction

T Zhao, J Li, J Liu, F Liu, K Xu, M Yu, W Xu… - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Achieving high activity and selectivity of multicarbon products in the CO2 reduction reaction
(CO2RR) on Cu-based electrocatalysts remains challenging due to the limited concentration …

In situ spectroelectrochemical probing of CO redox landscape on copper single-crystal surfaces

F Shao, JK Wong, QH Low… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Electrochemical reduction of CO (2) to value-added chemicals and fuels is a promising
strategy to sustain pressing renewable energy demands and to address climate change …

Active and Selective Ensembles in Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts for CO2 Reduction

F Dattila, R Garcı́a-Muelas, N López - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Copper catalysts are unique in CO2 reduction as they allow the formation of C2+ products.
Depending on the catalysts' synthesis, product distribution varies significantly: while Cu …

Why methanol electro-oxidation on platinum in water takes place only in the presence of adsorbed OH

DS Mekazni, RM Arán-Ais, A Ferre-Vilaplana… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Untangling the mechanism of the methanol electro-oxidation on platinum in water as a
model reaction is essential to optimize fuel cells using alcohols as fuel. Recent experiments …

Active site identification and engineering during the dynamic evolution of copper-based catalysts for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

B Deng, X Zhao, Y Li, M Huang, S Zhang… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
To date, copper-based catalysts are one of the most prominent catalysts that can
electrochemically reduce CO2 towards high-value fuels or chemicals, such as ethylene …

Restructuring and Activation of Cu (111) under Electrocatalytic Reduction Conditions

D Cheng, Z Wei, Z Zhang, P Broekmann… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamic restructuring of Cu surfaces in electroreduction conditions is of fundamental
interest in electrocatalysis. We decode the structural dynamics of a Cu (111) electrode under …

Hydrogen-induced restructuring of a Cu (100) electrode in electroreduction conditions

Z Zhang, Z Wei, P Sautet… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rearrangement of Cu surfaces under electrochemical conditions is known to play a key
role in the surface activation for major electrocatalytic reactions. Despite the extensive …