Angel Cuesta

TL;DR: This work presents an approach that can be used for the rational design of cathode catalysts with potential use in phosphoric acid fuel cells, or in any environments containing strongly adsorbing tetrahedral anions, based on molecular patterning of platinum surfaces with cyanide adsorbates that can efficiently block the sites for adsorption of spectator anions while the oxygen reduction reaction proceeds unhindered.

TL;DR: Through systematic examination of the reaction over a wide pH range by cyclic voltammetry and surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy, it is shown that the formate ion is the major reactant over the whole pH range examined, even in strong acid.

TL;DR: In this article, the surface morphology of Pt(111) and Pt(100) electrodes was characterized by cyclic voltammetry and in-situ STM in 0.1 M H 2 SO 4.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that in CO-free solutions, the maximum coverage is θCO = 0.68 and that higher coverages can only be achieved in the presence of CO in the solution.

TL;DR: It is suggested that adsorbed formate (HCOOads) is a reactive intermediate in the main pathway and its decomposition to CO2 is the rate-determining step (rds).