04/02/2015: A New Paper from TongLab has appeared on the Chem Commun Website as an Accepted Manuscript

Post date: Apr 02, 2015 6:13:40 PM

A paper entitled "A straightforward implementation of in situ solution electrochemical ¹³C NMR spectroscopyfor studying reactions on commercial electrocatalysts: ethanol oxidation" by Long Huang, Eric G. Sorte, Shi-Gang Sun and YuYe J. Tong has been published on the Chem. Commun.website as an accepted manuscript on April 02, 2015 (DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00862J). The paper reports the first in situ solution electrochemical ¹³C NMR study of ethanol oxidation on Pt and PtRu electrocatalysts. We discovered that (1) the complete oxidation of ethanol to CO2 only took place dominantly at the very beginning of a potentiostatic chronoamperometric (CA) measurement and (2) the PtRu had a much higher activity in catalysing oxygen insertion reaction that leads to acetic acid.