Active sites of copper-complex catalytic materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction

The catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into value-added products requires an understanding of the active species present under working conditions. Here, the authors discover copper-containing complexes to reversibly transform during electrocatalysis into methane-producing copper nanoclusters.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhe Weng, Yueshen Wu, Maoyu Wang, Jianbing Jiang, Ke Yang, Shengjuan Huo, Xiao-Feng Wang, Qing Ma, Gary W. Brudvig, Victor S. Batista, Yongye Liang, Zhenxing Feng, Hailiang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02819-7