Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Microfabricated electrodes unravel the role of interfaces in multicomponent copper-based CO2 reduction catalysts

  • Gastón O. Larrazábal,
  • Tatsuya Shinagawa,
  • Antonio J. Martín,
  • Javier Pérez-Ramírez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03980-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The development of efficient catalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion is hindered by a lack of rationalization. Here, authors use microfabricated electrodes to study the birth of active sites around interfaces in multicomponent copper-based catalysts during carbon dioxide reduction.