Abstract:
:While engineering the phase and structure of electrocatalysts could regulate the performance of many typical electrochemical processes, its importance to the carbon dioxide electroreduction has been largely unexplored. Herein, a series of phase and structure engineered copper-tin dioxide catalysts have been created and thoroughly exploited for the carbon dioxide electroreduction to correlate performance with their unique structures and phases. The copper oxide/hollow tin dioxide heterostructure catalyst exhibits promising performance, which can tune the products from carbon monoxide to formic acid at high faradaic efficiency by simply changing the electrolysis potentials from -0.7 VRHE to -1.0 VRHE. The excellent performance is attributed to the abundant copper/tin dioxide interfaces involved in the copper oxide/hollow tin dioxide heterostructure during the electrochemical process, decreasing the reaction free-energies for the formation of COOH* species. Our work reported herein emphasizes the importance of phase and structure modulating of catalysts for enhancing electrochemical CO2 reduction and beyond.
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Nat Communjournal_title
Nature communicationsauthors
Wang P,Qiao M,Shao Q,Pi Y,Zhu X,Li Y,Huang Xdoi
10.1038/s41467-018-07419-zsubject
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2018-11-22 00:00:00pages
4933issue
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2041-1723pii
10.1038/s41467-018-07419-zjournal_volume
9pub_type
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