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Direct Evidence of Subsurface Oxygen Formation in Oxide-Derived Cu by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: Subsurface oxygen has been proposed to be crucial in oxide-derived copper (OD-Cu) electrocatalysts for enhancing the binding of CO intermediates during CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂ RR). However, the presence of such oxygen species under reductive conditions still remains debated. In this work, the existence of subsurface oxygen is validated by grazing incident hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, where OD-Cu was prepared by reduction of Cu oxide with H₂ without exposing to air. The results suggest two types of subsurface oxygen embedded between the fully reduced metallic surface and the Cu₂ O buried beneath: (i) oxygen staying at lattice defects and/or vacancies in the surface-most region and (ii) interstitial oxygen intercalated in metal structure. This study adds convincing support to the presence of subsurface oxygen in OD-Cu, which previously has been suggested to play an important role to mitigate the σ-repulsion of Cu for CO intermediates in CO₂ RR.

SUBMITTER: Wang HY

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299841 | biostudies-literature |

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