Edge-confined under-coordinated Cu atoms on Ru nanosheets enable efficient CH4 activation

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Pawan Kumar, Jinguang Hu, Md Golam Kibria

• In this issue of Chem Catalysis, Jinchang Fan et al. demonstrate that Cu atoms confined in ultrathin 2D metallic Ru nanosheets (Ru11Cu NSs) favor bi-coordinated adsorption of O∗ species to reduce the activation energy barrier for a facile C–H bond cleavage to C1 oxygenates (CH3OOH and CH3OH) with 99% selectivity.

• Date created

  2022-09-16

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Methane oxidation
  • global warming
  • alternate fuel

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-h000-j024

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International