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Volume 8 Issue 9, September 2025

Modelling across scales

In their work, Haussener, López and colleagues study the electrochemical reduction of CO2 on silver catalysts via a catered multiscale modelling approach, identifying the crucial roles of mass transport and cation accumulation near the electrode’s surface.

See Lorenzutti et al.

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