This is an interesting alloy for a spillover catalyst, since it shows significant improvement over Pd alone.
I wonder how Cu-Pd compares with Ni-Pd in that regard? From: froarty An interesting Russian paper from 1999 discusses the disassociation of h2. It is titled “The enhanced catalytic dissociation of adsorbed hydrogen containing molecules”. http://www.icmp.lviv.ua/journal/zbirnyk.19/019/art19.pdf . by V.G.Litovchenko, A.A.Efremov
