Volume 7

  • No. 3 March 2024

    Durable manganese oxides

    In their work, Ryuhei Nakamura, Jianping Xiao, Ailong Li and colleagues report a strategy to achieve high stability of MnO2 in acidic water oxidation under relevant proton exchange membrane electrolyser conditions by tuning the oxide structure and increasing the strength of Mn–O bonds, which suppresses Mn dissolution.

    See Kong et al.

  • No. 2 February 2024

    Oscillating through oxygen phases

    In their work, Thomas Lunkenbein, Luis Sandoval-Diaz and colleagues study the dry reforming of methane on a nickel catalyst with in situ techniques, which reveal oscillatory kinetics through atomic surface oxygen, subsurface oxygen and bulk nickel oxide phases, with markedly different catalytic properties.

    See Sandoval-Diaz et al.

  • No. 1 January 2024

    Reconstructing copper

    In their work, Raffaella Buonsanti and colleagues investigate the mechanism of reconstruction of copper CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Spectroscopic methods support a dissolution-redeposition mechanism involving solution-based Cu(I) species which are further elucidated as copper carbonyl and oxalate complexes using density functional theory.

    See Vavra et al.