Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction

  • Jianfeng Huang,
  • Nicolas Hörmann,
  • Emad Oveisi,
  • Anna Loiudice,
  • Gian Luca De Gregorio,
  • Oliviero Andreussi,
  • Nicola Marzari,
  • Raffaella Buonsanti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05544-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While the degradation of materials during usage is crucial in understanding their performance, it is challenging to understand the corrosion processes. Here, authors find copper nanoparticles to undergo an unusual potential-driven nanoclustering degradation pathway during carbon dioxide reduction.