Subsurface Oxygen in Oxide-Derived Copper Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 285-290

  Eilert, André ^a,b,c   Cavalca, Filippo ^a,b,c   Roberts, F Sloan ^a,b,c   Osterwalder, Jürg ^d   Liu, Chang ^c   Favaro, Marco ^e   Crumlin, Ethan J ^e   Ogasawara, Hirohito ^a   Friebel, Daniel ^a   Pettersson, Lars G M ^c   Nilsson, Anders ^a,b,c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; BINDING SITES; CARBON MONOXIDE; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ETHYLENE; OXYGEN; POLLUTION CONTROL; REDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMBIENT-PRESSURE X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPIES; CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY SIMULATIONS; NANO-STRUCTURED; REDUCING CONDITIONS; RESIDUAL COPPER; RESIDUAL OXYGEN; SUBSURFACE OXYGEN;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 85018193019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02273     Document Type: Article

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