Title: Front Cover: Stability and Reversible Oxidation of Sub-Nanometric Cu5 Metal Clusters: Integrated Experimental Study and Theoretical Modeling
Authors: Akexander O. Mitrushchenko and María Pilar de Lara-Castells
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202300638
Date: 21/09/2023
Working Group: WG1 and WG3
Grant Period: GP1
Grant Period Goal (number): 4
Covered deliverables from the MoU (number): 1.1.1,1.3.2,3.5.3
Countries involved: Spain and France
Number of female/young/ITC coauthors: 1/0/0
The Front Cover shows a two-dimensional representation of a conical intersection causing a Jahn-Teller distortion that removes the degeneracy of two electronic states. The lowest-energy potential energy surface features close-lying multi minima and saddle points for bypiramidal Cu5 structures. As a result, Cu5 clusters exhibit fluxional motion, a characteristic enhancing their performance as catalysts. Cover design by Katarzyna Krupka. More information can be found in the Research Article by Akexander O. Mitrushchenkov and María Pilar de Lara-Castells.
