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  • Surface Science
  • Electrocatalysis
  • Materials Science

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  • Understanding active sites and structure-activity relationships is crucial for advancing electrocatalytic reactions.
  • Iron-based materials are widely studied for CO2 electroreduction (CO2RR), but the exact role of iron remains unclear.
  • Developing model catalysts with well-defined structures is essential to overcome these challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To construct and investigate monolayer iron clusters (ML-Fe) on Au(111) as model catalysts for CO2RR.
  • To elucidate the structure-activity relationships of iron catalysts at the atomic scale.
  • To understand how changes in iron cluster size affect catalytic performance and reaction pathways.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of monolayer Fe clusters on a single-crystal Au(111) substrate using vapor deposition under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV).
  • Atomic-scale characterization of Fe cluster size using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).
  • Electrocatalytic performance evaluation for CO2RR and theoretical calculations to analyze reaction mechanisms.

Main Results:

  • Successfully constructed tunable monolayer Fe clusters (ML-Fe) with sizes around 2 nm on Au(111).
  • ML-Fe catalysts achieved over 60% Faradaic efficiency (FE) for CO production during CO2RR.
  • Larger iron nanoparticles promoted hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to stronger *CO intermediate binding.

Conclusions:

  • Atomic-scale monolayer Fe clusters serve as effective model catalysts for studying CO2RR.
  • Catalyst structure, specifically Fe cluster size, critically influences selectivity between CO2RR and HER.
  • This work provides a foundation for designing well-defined catalysts to probe structure-activity relationships in electrocatalysis.