🧂 Like adding spices to a meal, adding promoters to a solid catalyst can have a very important effect on the final result. Yet, the fundamentals of the interplay of active metals and promoters often remain unknown.

🔬 We have investigated the Ga-promotion of Cu particles for methanol synthesis from carbon dioxide and hydrogen and found a complex dynamic alloying and de-alloying under working conditions.

👉 See our new paper for details:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202501338

👏 Congrats to our first authors Lorena and Patrik and many thanks for the fruitful 🤝 collaborations with the Grunwaldt and Studt teams at @KIT_Karlsruhe and to the whole priority program SPP2080 consortium.

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