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Efficient Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to C2+ Alcohols at Defect-Site-Rich Cu Surface
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Summary Electrochemical CO2 reduction is a promising approach for upgrading excessive CO2 into value-added chemicals, while the exquisite control of the catalyst atomic structures to obtain high C2+ alcohol selectivity has remained challenging due to the intrinsically favored ethylene pathways at Cu surface. Herein, we demonstrate a rational strategy to achieve ∼70% faradaic efficiency toward C2+ alcohols. We utilized a CO-rich environment to construct Cu catalysts with stepped sites that enabled high surface coverages of ∗CO intermediates and the bridge-bound ∗CO adsorption, which allowed to trigger CO2 reduction pathways toward the formation alcohols. Using this defect-site-rich Cu catalyst, we achieved C2+ alcohols with partial current densities of > 100 mA·cm−2 in both a flow-cell electrolyzer and a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) electrolyzer. A stable alcohol faradaic efficiency of ∼60% was also obtained, with ∼500 mg C2+ alcohol production per cm2 catalyst during a continuous 30-h operation.
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- Gu, Z., Shen, H., Chen, Z., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Ji, Y., Wang, Y., Zhu, C., Liu, J., Li, J., Sham, T.-K., Xu, X., & Zheng, G.
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- Joule
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2021-02
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- 5
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- 2
- Pages
- 429-440
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- 2542-4351 (ISSN-L)
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- W3120105118
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- 11.58
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- en
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