Issue 27, 2023

Liquid metal-based catalysts for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into solid carbon

Abstract

The emergence of liquid metal catalysts endows electrocatalytic processes with enhanced efficiencies by eliminating coking issues that rapidly deactivate conventional solid catalysts. Alloying them with trace amounts of redox-active metal additives can further improve their catalytic activity. Here we report a vanadium-liquid metal alloy with superior activity that can drive electrochemical reduction of CO2 into solid carbon. The reaction mechanism has been thoroughly investigated and discussed. In addition, artificial neural networks trained by machine learning have been demonstrated to be powerful in predicting performance of LM alloys with various compositions.

Graphical abstract: Liquid metal-based catalysts for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into solid carbon

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Mär 2023
Accepted
13 Jun 2023
First published
13 Jun 2023

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023,11, 14990-14996

Liquid metal-based catalysts for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into solid carbon

M. Irfan, K. Zuraiqi, C. K. Nguyen, T. C. Le, F. Jabbar, M. Ameen, C. J. Parker, K. Chiang, L. A. Jones, A. Elbourne, C. F. McConville, D. Yang and T. Daeneke, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 14990 DOI: 10.1039/D3TA01379K

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