Issue 39, 2020

A reconstructed porous copper surface promotes selectivity and efficiency toward C2 products by electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

Abstract

Electrocatalytic synthesis of multicarbon (C2+) products from CO2 reduction suffers from poor selectivity and low energy efficiency. Herein, a facile oxidation–reduction cycling method is adopted to reconstruct the Cu electrode surface with the help of halide anions. The surface composed of entangled Cu nanowires with hierarchical pores is synthesized in the presence of I, exhibiting a C2 faradaic efficiency (FE) of 80% at −1.09 V vs. RHE. A partial current density of 21 mA cm−2 is achieved with a C2 half-cell power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 39% on this electrode. Such high selective C2 production is found to mainly originate from CO intermediate enrichment inside hierarchical pores rather than the surface lattice effect of the Cu electrode.

Graphical abstract: A reconstructed porous copper surface promotes selectivity and efficiency toward C2 products by electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
28 Febr. 2020
Accepted
17 Maijs 2020
First published
19 Maijs 2020
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 10698-10704

A reconstructed porous copper surface promotes selectivity and efficiency toward C2 products by electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

J. Han, C. Long, J. Zhang, K. Hou, Y. Yuan, D. Wang, X. Zhang, X. Qiu, Y. Zhu, Y. Zhang, Z. Yang, S. Yan and Z. Tang, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 10698 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC01202E

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