Issue 5, 2022

Boosting CO2 electroreduction to C2+ products on fluorine-doped copper

Abstract

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 by renewable electricity offers a promising way to settle excessive greenhouse gases and achieve carbon neutrality under a mild environment. Cu-based catalysts have a unique catalytic activity towards multicarbon (C2+) products in the CO2 electroreduction reaction and are widely studied to promote the corresponding selectivity and activity. Here we report a F-doped Cu (F–Cu) catalyst to improve C2+ products in CO2 electroreduction. A high C2+ product (mainly ethylene and ethanol) faradaic efficiency of 70.4% was achieved on the F–Cu catalyst with a high current density (above 400 mA cm−2) in the flow-cell system. The in situ surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy results and electrochemical performance analysis demonstrated that CO2 could be reduced into CO at low potentials and the adsorption of CO could be strengthened on F–Cu, which is beneficial to the subsequent C–C coupling step and formation of the C2+ products.

Graphical abstract: Boosting CO2 electroreduction to C2+ products on fluorine-doped copper

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Dis 2021
Accepted
10 Feb 2022
First published
10 Feb 2022

Green Chem., 2022,24, 1989-1994

Boosting CO2 electroreduction to C2+ products on fluorine-doped copper

X. Yan, C. Chen, Y. Wu, Y. Chen, J. Zhang, R. Feng, J. Zhang and B. Han, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 1989 DOI: 10.1039/D1GC04824D

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