Electrochemical Ultrathin Metal‐Atomic Layer Deposition for Silica Microenvironment‐Assisted Cu‐Based Catalysis (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2024).

In an article published in Advanced Functional Materials, researchers Amit Kumar, In Su Lee, and their colleagues discuss their findings on electrochemical ultrathin metal-atomic layer deposition for silica microenvironment-assisted Cu-based catalysis. They demonstrate the formation of a sandwiched structure consisting of a 2D-Cu nanolayer grown electrochemically on a carbon paper inside a porous bilayer silica template. This structure, with its extended and intimate 2D-2D silica-Cu interface, acts as a catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes. [Extracted from the article]