Effects of Segregation on the Catalytic Properties of AgAuCuPdPt High-Entropy Alloy for CO Reduction Reaction.

Multicomponent alloys are promising catalysts for diverse chemical conversions, owing to the ability to tune their vast compositional space to maximize catalytic activity and product selectivity. However, elemental segregation, whereby the surface or grain boundaries of the material are enriched in a few elements, is a physically observed phenomenon in such alloys. Such segregation alters not only the composition but also the kinds of catalytically active sites present at the surface.