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ArticleNature chemistry2026

Small alkali cations direct CO electroreduction to hydrocarbons rather than oxygenates.

Weiyan Ni, Yongxiang Liang, Yufei Cao, Zhu Chen, Rui Kai Miao, Bosi Peng, Zeyan Liu, Yanjiang Liu, Huajie Ze, Xiao Wang and 17 more

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Weiyan Ni *The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0234-4483
Yongxiang Liang *The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6921-0102
Yufei Cao *The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4742-4009
Zhu Chen *The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Rui Kai MiaoDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0542-0683
Bosi PengDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9302-5925
Zeyan LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Yanjiang LiuThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Huajie ZeDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Xiao WangThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1624-8230
Dongha KimThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8072-9808
Sungjin ParkThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jiaqi YuDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Panos PapangelakisDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3634-8538
Victor BoureauInterdisciplinary Center for Electron Microscopy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-5892
Muhammad ImranThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7091-6514
Qiyou WangDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-2947-6737
Pengfei OuThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3630-0385
Xiao-Yan LiThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ke XieThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4220-272X
Roham DorakhanThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8104-7174
Erfan ShirzadiThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
George C SchatzDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5837-4740
David SintonDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2714-6408
Jun GeKey Lab for Industrial Biocatalysis, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. junge@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5503-8899
Jie ZengHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8812-0298
Edward H SargentThe Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ted.sargent@utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0396-6495

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrochemical CO reduction has the potential to enable low-carbon-intensity chemicals and fuels, but the reaction yields a mixture of multi-carbon products, and the underlying selectivity-driving mechanisms are unclear. Here we explore trends in alkali cations and find, in contradistinction to carbon dioxide electroreduction, that lithium promotes ethylene production. We study the electrolyte-catalyst interface using operando Raman spectroscopy and simulations and find that hydrated Li

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