Nature Communications (May 2020)

Tuning the activities of cuprous oxide nanostructures via the oxide-metal interaction

  • Wugen Huang,
  • Qingfei Liu,
  • Zhiwen Zhou,
  • Yangsheng Li,
  • Yunjian Ling,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Yunchuan Tu,
  • Beibei Wang,
  • Xiaohong Zhou,
  • Dehui Deng,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Yong Yang,
  • Zhi Liu,
  • Xinhe Bao,
  • Fan Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15965-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The design of oxide-metal interface for heterogeneous catalysis has been hampered by the limited fundamental understanding. Here, the authors demonstrate that the activities of cuprous oxide nanostructures for CO oxidation can be tuned via the oxide-metal (Cu2O/M, M = Pt, Ag, Au) interaction.