Grain boundaries impact the oxidation of CO on Cu nanoparticle model catalysts!
Check out the work by Sara Nilsson et al. on how grain boundary abundance impacts a catalytic reaction. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c06282
This work was a wonderful collaboration with Prof. Giannis Mpourmpakis and John N. El Berch at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States.