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Design of an active site towards optimal electrocatalysis: Overlayers, surface alloys and near-surface alloys of Cu/Pt(111)

  • Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka
  • , Ana Sofia Varela
  • , Mohammedreza Karamad
  • , Federico Calle-Vallejo
  • , Lone Bech
  • , Francisco J. Perez-Alonso
  • , Jan Rossmeisl
  • , Ifan E.L. Stephens
  • , Ib Chorkendorff
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Max-Planck-lnstitut für Kohlenforschung

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Abstract

I could never be without Cu: An active site has been designed for the catalysis of CO electroxidation. This was achieved by incorporating submonolayer amounts of Cu (orange spheres) into a single crystal of Pt (gray spheres). The electrochemical reactivity of this surface was highly sensitive to the exact position of Cu (see scheme).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11845-11848
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume51
Issue number47
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Nov 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cu/Pt alloy
  • cyclic voltammetry
  • density functional calculations
  • electrocatalysis
  • electrochemistry

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