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  "abstract": "Syngas (CO/H ₂ ), sourced from coal, biomass, and shale gas, plays a crucial role in producing a wide range of industrially essential hydrocarbons and oxygenates through Fischer–Tropsch synthesis and its variations. Despite extensive research dating back nearly a century, transforming syngas into higher alcohols remains challenging due to issues with low selectivity and catalyst instability. Generally, more than 50% of CO in typical syngas conversions yields unwanted hydrocarbons, mainly alkanes. Herein, we develop a catalyst integrating a Mo ₂ C-matrix-supported CuCo alloy with hydrophobic graphitic carbon overlayers, achieving 80% selectivity toward value-added alcohols and olefins, of which 59% are higher alcohols, while limiting alkanes to around 10%. The overlayers dynamically participate in the reaction through carbon consumption and replenishment, generating carbon-overlayer-derived CH x species that form an asymmetrically polarised coupling pair with CO-derived intermediates, thereby lowering the barrier for CO insertion and diverting CO from deoxygenation pathways leading to alkane and coke formation. Consequently, the yield of value-added products reaches four times that of typical benchmarks at 80% CO conversion with long-term stability. This work represents a substantial advance in higher alcohol synthesis and sheds new light on the catalytic role of surface carbon in syngas conversion.",
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      "name": "Jia Liu"
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      "name": "Jiachang Zuo",
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      "name": "Qiuyue Zhang",
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      "name": "Shan Gao"
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    {
      "name": "Xuelian Liang"
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      "name": "Xinping Duan",
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      "name": "Jing Ren"
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      "name": "Yufei Zhao",
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      "name": "Mingshu Chen",
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      "name": "Su-Yuan Xie",
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      "name": "Jian-Wei Zheng",
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    {
      "name": "Youzhu Yuan",
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  "published": "2026-09-30",
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  "title": "Dynamic carbon overlayered CuCo alloy promotes syngas to higher alcohols",
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