Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Nanoengineered chiral Pt-Ir alloys for high-performance enantioselective electrosynthesis

  • Sopon Butcha,
  • Sunpet Assavapanumat,
  • Somlak Ittisanronnachai,
  • Veronique Lapeyre,
  • Chularat Wattanakit,
  • Alexander Kuhn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21603-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Tremendous efforts have been made over the past decades regarding the development of materials with enantioselective properties. Here, the authors present a nanostructured chiral imprinted metal alloy that exhibits high enantioselectivity and stability for the electrosynthesis of chiral molecules.