By live-monitoring Cu and Cu2O Bragg peaks from the surface of a polycrystalline Cu electrode while scanning from open-circuit potential to CO reduction potentials, we show that the near-surface region is fully converted to the metallic phase at approximately +0.3 V vs RHE.
Soren B. Scott, Thomas V. Hogg, Alan T. Landers, Thomas Maagaard, Erlend Bertheussen, John C. Lin, Ryan C. Davis, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Drew Higgins, Walter S. Drisdell, Christopher Hahn, Apurva Mehta, Brian Seger, Thomas F. Jaramillo and Ib Chorkendorff
ACS Energy Lett.201943