Nature Communications (Mar 2021)
Operando high-pressure investigation of size-controlled CuZn catalysts for the methanol synthesis reaction
- Núria J. Divins,
- David Kordus,
- Janis Timoshenko,
- Ilya Sinev,
- Ioannis Zegkinoglou,
- Arno Bergmann,
- See Wee Chee,
- Simon Widrinna,
- Osman Karslıoğlu,
- Hemma Mistry,
- Mauricio Lopez Luna,
- Jian Qiang Zhong,
- Adam S. Hoffman,
- Alexey Boubnov,
- J. Anibal Boscoboinik,
- Marc Heggen,
- Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski,
- Simon R. Bare,
- Beatriz Roldan Cuenya
Affiliations
- Núria J. Divins
- Department of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
- David Kordus
- Department of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
- Janis Timoshenko
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- Ilya Sinev
- Department of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
- Ioannis Zegkinoglou
- Department of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
- Arno Bergmann
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- See Wee Chee
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- Simon Widrinna
- Department of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
- Osman Karslıoğlu
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- Hemma Mistry
- Department of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
- Mauricio Lopez Luna
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- Jian Qiang Zhong
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- Adam S. Hoffman
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Alexey Boubnov
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- J. Anibal Boscoboinik
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton
- Marc Heggen
- Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
- Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Simon R. Bare
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Beatriz Roldan Cuenya
- Department of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21604-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The nature of the active species over Cu/ZnO catalysts for methanol synthesis remains elusive. Here, the authors shed light on the evolution of the nanoparticle/support interface and correlate its structural and chemical transformations with changes in the catalytic performance.
