Journal
JOULE
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 617-635Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.02.010
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Funding
- project MIUR (PRIN 2015: SMART-NESS) [2015K7FZLH]
- project MIUR ( PRIN 2017: Multi-e) [20179337R7]
- MAECI Italy-China Bilateral Project (GINSENG) [PGR00953]
- Cariparo Foundation (project Synergy and Progetti di Eccellenza 2018)
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Electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (EC-STM) is an advanced technique that allows for atomic-level observation and quantitative evaluation of electrocatalytic activity, providing important insights into the microscopic mechanism of electrochemical reactions.
Electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (EC-STM) allows direct observation of surface changes at the atomic scale in the presence of an electrolyte at different electrochemical potentials. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the noise in the tunneling current of EC-STM allows identifying electrocatalytically active sites under reaction conditions. However, this method has never been applied to atom-by-atom investigations and could not provide a quantitative evaluation of the catalytic activity. Using the hydrogen evolution reaction as case study, we demonstrate that the quantitative analysis of the noise in the tunneling current allows quantifying the local onset potential and provides information about the microscopic mechanism of electrochemical reactions on subnanometric electrocatalytic sites, such as chemically heterogeneous flat interfaces, nanoparticles, and even single-atom defects. This unique method allows surpassing the current limits of not only the state-of-the-art EC-STM but also other operando and microscopy techniques.
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