Hydrophobic Ligand Engineering in Gold Nanoclusters Enables Durable CO2 Electroreduction Via Interfacial Water Control.
Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (metal NCs) provide ideal platforms for probing structure-performance relationship in electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR). However, how ligand hydrophobicity governs long-term electrode stability at the molecular level remains unsolved. Here, three homonuclear Au22 nano...