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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 13-25Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04155
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- European Research Council [715634]
- European Research Council (ERC) [715634] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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In the past decade, atomically engineered nanomaterials with different sizes and exposed facets have been proven to be excellent model systems to advance catalytic studies. Colloidal chemistry is one of the most powerful wet-chemistry techniques to tailor-make nanomaterials, thus making colloidal nanocrystals an ideal playground to investigate structural and compositional reaction sensitivities but also to study degradation pathways. In this Perspective, we focus on colloidally synthesized nanocrystals as heterogeneous catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction. We discuss very recent studies from us and from others, which encourage the scientific community to explore the tunability offered by colloidal chemistry even further. For example, synergistic interactions of the metallic nanocrystal catalyst with domains of different chemical nature could be exploited with the aim of revealing new catalytic motifs that promote the activity, selectivity, and stability of electrocatalysts for CO2 conversion.
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