Efficient solar-driven electrocatalytic CO2 reduction in a redox-medium-assisted system.

Abstract:

:Solar-driven electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is capable of producing value-added chemicals and represents a potential route to alleviate carbon footprint in the global environment. However, the ever-changing sunlight illumination presents a substantial impediment of maintaining high electrocatalytic efficiency and stability for practical applications. Inspired by green plant photosynthesis with separate light reaction and (dark) carbon fixation steps, herein, we developed a redox-medium-assisted system that proceeds water oxidation with a nickel-iron hydroxide electrode under light illumination and stores the reduction energy using a zinc/zincate redox, which can be controllably released to spontaneously reduce CO2 into carbon monoxide (CO) with a gold nanocatalyst in dark condition. This redox-medium-assisted system enables a record-high solar-to-CO photoconversion efficiency of 15.6% under 1-sun intensity, and an outstanding electric energy efficiency of 63%. Furthermore, it allows a unique tuning capability of the solar-to-CO efficiency and selectivity by the current density applied during the carbon fixation.

journal_name

Nat Commun

journal_title

Nature communications

authors

Wang Y,Liu J,Wang Y,Wang Y,Zheng G

doi

10.1038/s41467-018-07380-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-27 00:00:00

pages

5003

issue

1

issn

2041-1723

pii

10.1038/s41467-018-07380-x

journal_volume

9

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