Cu overlayers on tetrahexahedral Pd nanocrystals with high-index facets for CO2 electroreduction to alcohols

Feng-Yang Zhang; Tian Sheng; Na Tian; Li Liu; Chi Xiao; Bang-An Lu; Bin-Bin Xu; Zhi-You Zhou; Shi-Gang Sun

doi:10.1039/C7CC04140C

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Cu overlayers on tetrahexahedral Pd nanocrystals with high-index facets for CO₂ electroreduction to alcohols†

Feng-Yang Zhang,^a Tian Sheng,

^a Na Tian,

*^a Li Liu,^a Chi Xiao,^a Bang-An Lu,^a Bin-Bin Xu,^a Zhi-You Zhou^a and Shi-Gang Sun^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
E-mail: tnsd@xmu.edu.cn

Abstract

We investigated CO₂ electroreduction on Cu overlayers on tetrahexahedral Pd nanocrystals with {310} high-index facets, which exhibited a high Faradaic efficiency towards alcohols. The selectivity to ethanol or methanol can be readily tuned by changing the Cu coverage.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC04140C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 29 May 2017
Accepted: 26 Jun 2017
First published: 26 Jun 2017

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Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 8085-8088

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Cu overlayers on tetrahexahedral Pd nanocrystals with high-index facets for CO₂ electroreduction to alcohols

F. Zhang, T. Sheng, N. Tian, L. Liu, C. Xiao, B. Lu, B. Xu, Z. Zhou and S. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 8085 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC04140C

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