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Cu3N Nanocubes for Selective Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Ethylene
Abstract
Understanding the Cu-catalyzed electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) under ambient conditions is both fundamentally interesting and technologically important for selective CO 2 RR to hydrocarbons. Current Cu catalysts studied for the CO 2 RR can show high activity but tend to yield a mixture of different hydrocarbons, posing a serious challenge on using any of these catalysts for selective CO 2 RR. Here, we report a new perovskite-type copper(I) nitride (Cu 3 N) nanocube (NC) catalyst for selective CO 2 RR. The 25 nm Cu 3 N NCs show high CO 2 RR selectivity and stability to ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) at −1.6 V (vs reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE)) with the Faradaic efficiency of 60%, mass activity of 34 A/g, and C 2 H 4 /CH 4 molar ratio of >2000. More detailed electrochemical characterization, X-ray photon spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations suggest that the high CO 2 RR selectivity is likely a result of (100) Cu(I) stabilization by the Cu 3 N structure, which favors CO–CHO coupling on the (100) Cu 3 N surface, leading to selective formation of C 2 H 4 . Our study presents a good example of utilizing metal nitrides as highly efficient nanocatalysts for selective CO 2 RR to hydrocarbons that will be important for sustainable chemistry/energy applications.
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- Yin, Z., Yu, C., Zhao, Z., Guo, X., Shen, M., Li, N., Muzzio, M., Li, J., Liu, H., Lin, H., Yin, J., Lu, G., Su, D., & Sun, S.
- Venue
- Nano Letters
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2019-11-04
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 8658-8663
- ISSN
- 1530-6984 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-6992
- OpenAlex
- W2988615383
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- 269
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 5.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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