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Inside Cover: Pt 3 Co Octapods as Superior Catalysts of CO 2 Hydrogenation (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2016)
Author(s) -
Khan Munir Ullah,
Wang Liangbing,
Liu Zhao,
Gao Zehua,
Wang Shenpeng,
Li Hongliang,
Zhang Wenbo,
Wang Menglin,
Wang Zhengfei,
Ma Chao,
Zeng Jie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201604910
Subject(s) - catalysis , cover (algebra) , materials science , charge (physics) , nanoparticle , lightning (connector) , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , chemistry , physics , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , engineering , quantum mechanics , mechanical engineering , power (physics)
Various Pt/Co nanoparticles were used as catalysts for CO 2 hydrogenation by J. Zeng, Z. Wang, and co‐workers. As they describe in their Communication on page 9548 ff., Pt 3 Co octapods were the most efficient catalysts for this process owing to the presence of multiple sharp tips (the “sharp‐tip effect”) and charge transfer between Pt and Co, which leads to the accumulation of negative charge in the vertices. Examples of the sharp‐tip effect in the macroscopic world are lightning conductors with a sharp tip to attract lightning.