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SUBMITTER: Favaro M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5495248 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Favaro Marco M Xiao Hai H Cheng Tao T Goddard William A WA Yano Junko J Crumlin Ethan J EJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170612 26
A national priority is to convert CO<sub>2</sub> into high-value chemical products such as liquid fuels. Because current electrocatalysts are not adequate, we aim to discover new catalysts by obtaining a detailed understanding of the initial steps of CO<sub>2</sub> electroreduction on copper surfaces, the best current catalysts. Using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy interpreted with quantum mechanical prediction of the structures and free energies, we show that the presence of ...[more]