Identifying a Langmuir-Hinshelwood Hydrogenation Mechanism to Design a Bimetallic AgPd Catalyst for Electrochemical Acetylene-to-Ethylene Conversion.
The intensified hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) competition is an elusive obstacle for the practical application of electrocatalytic acetylene (C2H2) hydrogenation (EAH) for petroleum-independent ethylene (C2H4) formation. Fundamentally, ambiguous mechanistic insight severely hinders the rational design of efficient...