Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mistry, Hemma ^a,b   Varela, Ana Sofia ^c   Bonifacio, Cecile S ^d   Zegkinoglou, Ioannis ^b   Sinev, Ilya ^b   Choi, Yong Wook ^b   Kisslinger, Kim ^e   Stach, Eric A ^e   Yang, Judith C ^d   Strasser, Peter ^c   Cuenya, Beatriz Roldan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COPPER; COPPER OXIDE; ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBON; OXYGEN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; COPPER; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ETHYLENE; HYDROCARBON TECHNOLOGY; REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTROPHILICITY; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMA; REDUCTION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; THICKNESS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84977151003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12123     Document Type: Article

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