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A Molecular Surface Functionalization Approach to Tuning Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction
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Conversion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) to value-added products is an important challenge for sustainable energy research, and nanomaterials offer a broad class of heterogeneous catalysts for such transformations. Here we report a molecular surface functionalization approach to tuning gold nanoparticle (Au NP) electrocatalysts for reduction of CO2 to CO. The N-heterocyclic (NHC) carbene-functionalized Au NP catalyst exhibits improved faradaic efficiency (FE = 83%) for reduction of CO2 to CO in water at neutral pH at an overpotential of 0.46 V with a 7.6-fold increase in current density compared to that of the parent Au NP (FE = 53%). Tafel plots of the NHC carbene-functionalized Au NP (72 mV/decade) vs parent Au NP (138 mV/decade) systems further show that the molecular ligand influences mechanistic pathways for CO2 reduction. The results establish molecular surface functionalization as a complementary approach to size, shape, composition, and defect control for nanoparticle catalyst design.
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- Cao, Z., Kim, D., Hong, D., Yu, Y., Xu, J., Lin, S., Wen, X., Nichols, E. M., Jeong, K., Reimer, J. A., Yang, P., & Chang, C. J.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
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- 2016-06-20
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- 138
- Issue
- 26
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- 8120-8125
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- 0002-7863 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5126
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- W2436645641
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- 13.77
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- green
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