ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Mesoscopic understanding of supported catalysts with overlapping electric double layers
A defossilized global energy ecosystem hinges on efficient conversion between renewable electrical energy and chemical energy stored in molecules. This conversion requires precious catalysts to drive relevant reactions at practical rates. Many catalysts are employed in the form of nanoparticles (NP) dispersed on support materials. All relevant reactions occur in a nanoscale region at the interface between the solid catalyst and an electrolyte solution, i.e., an electric double layer (EDL). Our current knowledge of EDL is essentially limited to planar electrodes with a single EDL, whereas supported NP catalysts (SNPC) exhibit radically different EDL characteristics, featuring overlap of…
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