Advances and challenges in understanding the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuels

Origin of the Overpotential for Oxygen Reduction at a Fuel-Cell Cathode

Nørskov, J. K., Rossmeisl, J., Logadottir, A., Lindqvist, L., Kitchin, J. R., Bligaard, T., & Jónsson, H. (2004) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp047349j · Cited by 13,153

Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

Seh, Z. W., Kibsgaard, J., Dickens, C. F., Chorkendorff, I., Nørskov, J. K., & Jaramillo, T. F. (2017) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aad4998 · Cited by 12,114

Benchmarking Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

McCrory, C. C. L., Jung, S., Peters, J. C., & Jaramillo, T. F. (2013) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja407115p · Cited by 7,026

Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry

Bockris, J. O., White, R. E., & Conway, B. E. (2002) · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · doi:10.1007/b114168 · Cited by 5,954

How copper catalyzes the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels

Peterson, A. A., Abild-Pedersen, F., Studt, F., Rossmeisl, J., & Nørskov, J. K. (2010) · Energy & Environmental Science · doi:10.1039/c0ee00071j · Cited by 3,784

New insights into the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on metallic copper surfaces

Kuhl, K. P., Cave, E. R., Abram, D. N., & Jaramillo, T. F. (2012) · Energy & Environmental Science · doi:10.1039/c2ee21234j · Cited by 3,160

CO 2 electroreduction to ethylene via hydroxide-mediated copper catalysis at an abrupt interface

Dinh, C.-T., Burdyny, T., Kibria, M. G., Seifitokaldani, A., Gabardo, C. M., García de Arquer, F. P., Kiani, A., Edwards, J. P., De Luna, P., Bushuyev, O. S., et al. (2018) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aas9100 · Cited by 2,515

Catalysts and Reaction Pathways for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

Kortlever, R., Shen, J., Schouten, K. J. P., Calle‐Vallejo, F., & Koper, M. T. M. (2015) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01559 · Cited by 2,217

Electrocatalytic process of CO selectivity in electrochemical reduction of CO2 at metal electrodes in aqueous media

Hori, Y., Wakebe, H., Tsukamoto, T., & Koga, O. (1994) · Electrochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0013-4686(94)85172-7 · Cited by 2,140

CO 2 Reduction at Low Overpotential on Cu Electrodes Resulting from the Reduction of Thick Cu 2 O Films

Li, C. W., & Kanan, M. W. (2012) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja3010978 · Cited by 2,000

Synergistic engineering of heteronuclear Ni-Ag dual-atom catalysts for high-efficiency CO2 electroreduction with nearly 100% CO selectivity

Guo, Z., Zhu, H., Yang, G., Wu, A., Chen, Q., Yan, Z., Fow, K. L., Do, H., Hirst, J. D., Wu, T., et al. (2023) · Chemical Engineering Journal · doi:10.1016/j.cej.2023.146556 · Cited by 53

Interfacial microenvironment effects on electrochemical CO2 reduction

Chen, X., Chen, C., Wang, Y., Pan, Z., Chen, J., Xu, Y., Zhu, L., Song, T., Li, R., Chen, L., et al. (2024) · Chemical Engineering Journal · doi:10.1016/j.cej.2024.148944 · Cited by 54

A critical review of operating stability issues in electrochemical CO2 reduction

DuanMu, J.-W., Gao, F., & Gao, M. (2024) · Science China Materials · doi:10.1007/s40843-024-2835-3 · Cited by 56

Cu 2 O-based catalysts applied for electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction: a review

Liu, C., Guo, R., Zhu, H., Cui, H.-F., Liu, M., & Pan, W.-G. (2024) · Journal of Materials Chemistry A · doi:10.1039/d4ta06287f · Cited by 56

Bioinspired catalytic pocket promotes CO 2 -to-ethanol photoconversion on colloidal quantum wells

Pan, R., Wang, Q., Zhao, Y. C., Feng, Z., Xu, Y., Wang, Z., Li, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, H., Liu, J., et al. (2024) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.adq2791 · Cited by 53

Atomic Eu Substitution in Cu 2 O Tailors C 1 and C 2+ Product Selectivity by Frustrated Deep Hydrogenation in Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction

Liu, Y., Wang, X., Mao, Z., Zhang, J., Li, M. Z., Sun, D., Tang, Y., Li, H., & Fu, G. (2025) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.5c19360 · Cited by 53

Investigation of CO 2 Electrolysis on Tin Foil by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

Bienen, F., Kopljar, D., Geiger, S., Wagner, N., & Friedrich, K. A. (2020) · ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b07625 · Cited by 53

The inhibition of the proton donor ability of bicarbonate promotes the electrochemical conversion of CO2 in bicarbonate solutions

Gutiérrez‐Sánchez, O., Daems, N., Offermans, W. K., Birdja, Y. Y., Bulut, M., Pant, D., & Breugelmans, T. (2021) · Journal of CO2 Utilization · doi:10.1016/j.jcou.2021.101521 · Cited by 53

Electrocatalysis enabled transformation of earth-abundant water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide for a sustainable future

Liu, K., Cao, P., Chen, W., Ezeh, C. I., Chen, Z., Luo, Y., Liu, Q., Zhao, H., Rui, Z., Gao, S., et al. (2021) · Materials Advances · doi:10.1039/d1ma00814e · Cited by 53

Insights into Liquid Product Formation during Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Copper and Oxide-Derived Copper from Quantitative Real-Time Measurements

Löffler, M., Khanipour, P., Kulyk, N., Mayrhofer, K. J. J., & Katsounaros, I. (2020) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.0c01388 · Cited by 52

Tuning CuZn interfaces in metal–organic framework-derived electrocatalysts for enhancement of CO 2 conversion to C 2 products

Juntrapirom, S., Santatiwongchai, J., Watwiangkham, A., Suthirakun, S., Butburee, T., Faungnawakij, K., Chakthranont, P., Hirunsit, P., & Rungtaweevoranit, B. (2021) · Catalysis Science & Technology · doi:10.1039/d1cy01839f · Cited by 52

Copper-based catalysts for electrochemical carbon monoxide reduction

Ji, Y., Guan, A., & Zheng, G. (2022) · Cell Reports Physical Science · doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101072 · Cited by 52

Progress of Nb-containing catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction: a minireview

Gao, J., Tian, W., & Zhang, H. (2022) · Tungsten · doi:10.1007/s42864-022-00185-y · Cited by 52

Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide: Recent Advances on Au-Based Nanocatalysts

Chen, Q.-S., Tsiakaras, P. E., & Shen, P. K. (2022) · Catalysts · doi:10.3390/catal12111348 · Cited by 52

Realistic Modeling of the Electrocatalytic Process at Complex Solid‐Liquid Interface

Zhao, H., Lv, X., & Wang, Y. (2023) · Advanced Science · doi:10.1002/advs.202303677 · Cited by 52

Two-dimensional pyrite supported transition metal for highly-efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction: A theoretical screening study

Yang, Y., Liu, J., Wu, D., Ding, J., & Xiong, B. (2021) · Chemical Engineering Journal · doi:10.1016/j.cej.2021.130541 · Cited by 52

Promoting the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 on Ultrathin Porous Bismuth Nanosheets with Tunable Surface-Active Sites and Local pH Environments

Yu, Z., Wu, S.-Q., Chen, L., Hao, Y., Su, X., Zhu, Z., Gao, W., Wang, B., & Yin, A. (2022) · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · doi:10.1021/acsami.1c16689 · Cited by 52

Rational Manipulation of Intermediates on Copper for CO2 Electroreduction Toward Multicarbon Products

Jiang, G., Han, D., Han, Z., Gao, J., Wang, X., Weng, Z., & Yang, Q. (2022) · Transactions of Tianjin University · doi:10.1007/s12209-022-00330-1 · Cited by 52

Engineering transition metal-based nanomaterials for high-performance electrocatalysis

Wang, C., Li, C. M., Liu, J., & Guo, C. (2021) · Materials Reports Energy · doi:10.1016/j.matre.2021.01.001 · Cited by 52

Hierarchically Porous CuAg via 3D Printing/Dealloying for Tunable CO2Reduction to Syngas

Yan, W.-Y., Zhang, C., & Liu, L. (2021) · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · doi:10.1021/acsami.1c10564 · Cited by 51

Enhancing Biohybrid CO2 to Multicarbon Reduction via Adapted Whole-Cell Catalysts

Kim, J., Cestellos-Blanco, S., Shen, Y., Cai, R., & Yang, P. (2022) · Nano Letters · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01576 · Cited by 51

Ethanol formation from CO2 hydrogenation at atmospheric pressure using Cu catalysts: Water as a key component

da Silva, A. H. M., Vieira, L. H., Santanta, C. S., Koper, M. T. M., Assaf, E. M., Assaf, J. M., & Gomes, J. F. (2022) · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.122221 · Cited by 51

Correlating Oxidation State and Surface Ligand Motifs with the Selectivity of CO2 Photoreduction to C2 Products

Ni, B., Zhang, G., Wang, H., Min, Y., Jiang, K. P., & Li, H. (2022) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202215574 · Cited by 51

Effects of ligand tuning and core doping of atomically precise copper nanoclusters on CO2 electroreduction selectivity

Ding, M., Tang, L. H., Ma, X., Song, C., & Wang, S. (2022) · Communications Chemistry · doi:10.1038/s42004-022-00779-0 · Cited by 51

Interfacial pH measurements during CO 2 reduction on gold using a rotating ring-disk electrode

Liu, X., Monteiro, M. C. O., & Koper, M. T. M. (2023) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/d2cp05515e · Cited by 51

Acidic media enables oxygen-tolerant electrosynthesis of multicarbon products from simulated flue gas

Wang, M., Wang, B. X., Zhang, J., Xi, S., Ling, N., Mi, Z., Yang, Q., Zhang, M., Leow, W. R., Zhang, J., et al. (2024) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-45527-1 · Cited by 54

Ionic Liquid‐Induced Product Switching in CO 2 Electroreduction on Copper Reaction Interface

Cai, H., Yang, H., Feng, J., Zhou, K., Liu, C., Hu, Q. L., & He, C. (2024) · Advanced Functional Materials · doi:10.1002/adfm.202404102 · Cited by 51

Selective CO2 Electroreduction to Multi-Carbon Products on Organic-Functionalized CuO Nanoparticles by Local Micro-Environment Modulation

Ren, S., Cao, X., Fan, Q., Yang, Z., Wang, F., Wang, X., Bai, L., & Yang, J. (2024) · Nano-Micro Letters · doi:10.1007/s40820-024-01480-8 · Cited by 51

Steering Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Selectivity toward CH4 or C2H4 on N-Doped Carbon-Coated Cu/Cu2O Composite Catalysts

Li, F., Tariq, H., Yang, H., Cao, Y., Tang, Z., & Wang, G. (2024) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.4c04589 · Cited by 51

Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation

McKee, M., Kutter, M., Wu, Y., Williams, H., Vaudreuil, M.-A., Carta, M., Yadav, A. K., Singh, H., Masson, J., Lentz, D., et al. (2024) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/s41557-024-01650-6 · Cited by 51

Carbon Dioxide Upgrading to Biodegradable Plastics through Photo/Electro‐Synthetic Biohybrid Systems

Kuang, M., Li, B., Zhou, L., Huang, Z., Wu, J., Wang, S., & Yang, J. (2024) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202422357 · Cited by 51

Surface restructuring in AgCu single-atom alloy catalyst and self-enhanced selectivity toward CO2 reduction

Wang, H., Zhou, X., Yu, T., Lu, X., Qian, L., Liu, P., & Lei, P. (2022) · Electrochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2022.140774 · Cited by 50

Bulk-immiscible CuAg alloy nanorods prepared by phase transition from oxides for electrochemical CO 2 reduction

Yu, Y., Wang, D., Hong, Y.-M., Zhang, T., Liu, C., Chen, J., Qin, G. W., & Li, S. (2022) · Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/d2cc04789f · Cited by 50

Confinement of SnCu x O 2+ x Nanoclusters in Zeolites for High‐Efficient Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Zhu, Y., Li, P., Yang, X., Wang, M., Zhang, Y., Gao, P., Huang, Q., Wei, Y., Yang, X., Wang, D., et al. (2023) · Advanced Energy Materials · doi:10.1002/aenm.202204143 · Cited by 52

Mechanistic Insights into the Formation of Hydroxyacetone, Acetone, and 1,2-Propanediol from Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper

da Silva, A. H. M., Karaiskakis, G., Vos, R. E., & Koper, M. T. M. (2023) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.3c03045 · Cited by 50

Theoretical calculation guided design of single atom-alloyed bismuth catalysts for ampere-level CO2 electrolysis to formate

Shen, H., Wang, T., Jiang, H., Zhao, P., Chen, Z., Feng, Y., Cao, Y., Guo, Y., Zhang, Q., & Zhang, H. (2023) · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123140 · Cited by 50

Structuring Cu Membrane Electrode for Maximizing Ethylene Yield from CO2 Electroreduction

Han, J., Tu, B., An, P., Zhang, J., Yan, Z., Zhang, X., Long, C., Zhu, Y., Yuan, Y. D., Qiu, X., et al. (2024) · Advanced Materials · doi:10.1002/adma.202313926 · Cited by 50

Atomically Isolated Pd Sites Promote Electrochemical CO Reduction to Acetate through a Protonation-Regulated Mechanism

Li, S., Zhang, G., Ma, X., Gao, H., Fu, D., Wang, T., Zeng, J., Zhao, Z., Zhang, P., & Gong, J. (2024) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.4c11276 · Cited by 50

Shaping the future of solar-driven photocatalysis by reticular framework materials

Alamgir, Mushtaq, N., Ahmad, A., Erum, J. K. E., Li, L., Qian, J., Wang, X., & Gao, J. (2025) · Journal of Material Science and Technology · doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2025.02.009 · Cited by 50

Tandem amine scrubbing and CO2 electrolysis via direct piperazine carbamate reduction

Li, P., Mao, Y., Shin, H., Yang, Q. X., Cheng, X., Li, Y., Li, K., Yu, H. B., Mulder, R. J., Pang, W. K., et al. (2025) · Nature Energy · doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01869-8 · Cited by 50

Simultaneous power generation and CO 2 valorization by aqueous Al–CO 2 batteries using nanostructured Bi 2 S 3 as the cathode electrocatalyst

Ding, P., Zhang, J., Han, N., Zhou, Y., Lin, J. H., & Li, Y. (2020) · Journal of Materials Chemistry A · doi:10.1039/d0ta03761c · Cited by 50

Dual 2D CuSe/g-C3N4 heterostructure for boosting electrocatalytic reduction of CO2

Zhang, H., Ouyang, T., Li, J., Mu, M., & Yin, X. (2021) · Electrochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138766 · Cited by 50

Mapping Composition–Selectivity Relationships of Supported Sub-10 nm Cu–Ag Nanocrystals for High-Rate CO2 Electroreduction

Choukroun, D., Pacquets, L., Li, C., Hoekx, S., Arnouts, S., Baert, K., Hauffman, T., Bals, S., & Breugelmans, T. (2021) · ACS Nano · doi:10.1021/acsnano.1c04943 · Cited by 50

Molecular Modulation of Sequestered Copper Sites for Efficient Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methane

Zhang, K., Xu, J., Yan, T., Lin, J. H., Zhang, J., Shao, C., Zhang, L., Han, N., & Li, Y. (2023) · Advanced Functional Materials · doi:10.1002/adfm.202214062 · Cited by 49

Restructuring and Activation of Cu(111) under Electrocatalytic Reduction Conditions

Cheng, D., Wei, Z., Zhang, Z., Broekmann, P., Alexandrova, A. N., & Sautet, P. (2023) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202218575 · Cited by 49

Enhancing catalytic activity of CO2 electrolysis by building efficient and durable heterostructure for solid oxide electrolysis cell cathode

Lu, C., Xu, C., Sun, W., Ren, R., Qiao, J., Wang, Z., Sun, K., Pan, G., & Cao, Y. (2023) · Journal of Power Sources · doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233134 · Cited by 49

Activating *CO by Strengthening Fe–CO π‐Backbonding to Enhance Two‐Carbon Products Formation toward CO 2 Electroreduction on Fe–N 4 Sites

Zhu, W., Liu, S., Zhao, K., Su, Y., Yang, Y., Huang, K., & He, Z. (2024) · Advanced Functional Materials · doi:10.1002/adfm.202402537 · Cited by 49

Linkage Engineering in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Metal‐Free Electrocatalytic C2H4 Production from CO2

Xiao, Y., Lu, J., Chen, K., Cao, Y., Gong, C., & Ke, F. (2024) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202404738 · Cited by 49

Electrifying HCOOH synthesis from CO 2 building blocks over Cu–Bi nanorod arrays

Zhang, G., Tan, B., Mok, D. H., Liu, H., Ni, B., Zhao, G., Ye, K., Huo, S., Miao, X., Liang, Z., et al. (2024) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2400898121 · Cited by 49

Rational Strategies for Preparing Highly Efficient Tin‐, Bismuth‐ or Indium‐Based Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction to Formic acid/Formate

Yang, Z., Jin, Y., Feng, Z., Luo, P., Feng, C., Zhou, Y., An, X., Hao, X., Abudula, A., & Guan, G. (2024) · ChemSusChem · doi:10.1002/cssc.202401181 · Cited by 49

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Competition between C–H and O–H Bond Formation Pathways during Electrochemical Reduction of CO on Copper Electrodes

Xiang, S., Shi, J., Gao, S., Zhang, W., & Zhao, L. (2021) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.0c05472 · Cited by 49

Electrochemical CO2 reduction at room temperature: Status and perspectives

Senocrate, A., & Battaglia, C. (2021) · Journal of Energy Storage · doi:10.1016/j.est.2021.102373 · Cited by 49

Tandem electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction with Fe-porphyrins and Cu nanocubes enhances ethylene production

Wang, M., Nikolaou, V., Loiudice, A., Sharp, I. D., Llobet, A., & Buonsanti, R. (2022) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d2sc04794b · Cited by 49

In situ and operando electron microscopy in heterogeneous catalysis—insights into multi-scale chemical dynamics

Chee, S. W., Lunkenbein, T., Schlögl, R., & Cuenya, B. R. (2021) · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · doi:10.1088/1361-648x/abddfd · Cited by 48

Robust palladium hydride catalyst for electrocatalytic formate formation with high CO tolerance

Guo, S., Liu, Y., Murphy, E., Ly, A., Xu, M., Matanović, I., Pan, X. Q., & Atanassov, P. B. (2022) · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121659 · Cited by 48

Effects of nitrogen and oxygen on electrochemical reduction of CO2 in nitrogen-doped carbon black

Zeng, Q., Yang, G., Chen, J., Zhang, Q., Liu, Z., Qin, B., & Peng, F. (2022) · Carbon · doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.10.038 · Cited by 48

Optimized manufacturing of gas diffusion electrodes for CO2 electroreduction with automatic spray pyrolysis

Abarca, J. A., Díaz‐Sainz, G., Merino‐Garcia, I., Beobide, G., Albo, J., & Irabien, Á. (2023) · Journal of environmental chemical engineering · doi:10.1016/j.jece.2023.109724 · Cited by 48

Geometric and Electronic Structural Engineering of Isolated Ni Single Atoms for a Highly Efficient CO 2 Electroreduction

Song, I., Eom, Y., Muthu Austeria, P., Hong, D. H., Balamurugan, M., Boppella, R., Kim, D. H., & Kim, T. K. (2023) · Small · doi:10.1002/smll.202300049 · Cited by 48

Synergistic effect of CuO and Sr doped g-C3N4 for CO2 photoreduction into hydrocarbon fuels

Raza, A., Haidry, A. A., Yao, Z., Saleem, M. F., Alothman, A. A., & Mohammad, S. (2023) · Chemical Engineering Journal · doi:10.1016/j.cej.2023.148162 · Cited by 48

Nickel Nanocluster‐Stabilized Unsaturated Ni–N 3 Atomic Sites for Efficient CO 2 ‐to‐CO Electrolysis at Industrial‐Level Current

Zhang, W., Mehmood, A., Ali, G., Liu, H., Chai, L., Wu, J., & Liu, M. (2025) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202424552 · Cited by 48

Decoupling Product Selectivity in Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction by Steering the Interfacial Water Structure

Yang, Y., Wang, J., Shi, Y., Han, X., Wang, Y., Mohanty, B., Liang, Y., Xue, M., Zeng, J., Liu, T., et al. (2026) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.6c00420 · Cited by 48

Imidazolium‐Functionalized Cationic Covalent Triazine Frameworks Stabilized Copper Nanoparticles for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction

Mao, M., Zhang, M., Meng, D., Chen, J., He, C. R., Huang, Y., & Cao, R. (2020) · ChemCatChem · doi:10.1002/cctc.202000387 · Cited by 48

Metal Phthalocyanine-Derived Single-Atom Catalysts for Selective CO 2 Electroreduction under High Current Densities

Wang, Y., Jiang, Z. S., Zhang, X., Niu, Z., Zhou, Q., Wang, X., Li, H., Lin, Z., Zheng, H., & Liang, Y. (2020) · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · doi:10.1021/acsami.0c08940 · Cited by 48

A metal–organic framework/polymer derived catalyst containing single-atom nickel species for electrocatalysis

Yang, S., Zhang, J., Peng, L., Asgari, M., Stoian, D., Kochetygov, I., Luo, W., Oveisi, E., Trukhina, O. N., Clark, A. H., et al. (2020) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d0sc04512h · Cited by 48

How Strain Alters CO2 Electroreduction on Model Cu(001) Surfaces

Kim, T., Kumar, R. E., Brock, J. A., Fullerton, E. E., & Fenning, D. P. (2021) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.0c05671 · Cited by 48

Achieving highly selective electrochemical CO2 reduction to C2H4 on Cu nanosheets

Xie, H., Xie, R., Zhang, Z., Pang, Y., Luo, Y., Li, J., Liu, B., Titirici, M., & Chai, G. (2022) · Journal of Energy Chemistry · doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2022.11.058 · Cited by 47

Maximizing the utilization of single-atom sites on carbon-based catalysts for efficient CO2 electroreduction with ultrahigh turnover frequency

Liang, S., Zhang, T., Zheng, Y., Xue, T., Wang, Z., Wang, Q., & He, H. (2023) · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.122801 · Cited by 49

Perovskite‐Derived Bismuth with I − and Cs + Dual Modification for High‐Efficiency CO 2 ‐to‐Formate Electrosynthesis and Al‐CO 2 Batteries

Luo, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, J., Ding, X., Pan, B., Wang, L., Lu, J. B., Cao, M., & Li, Y. (2023) · Advanced Materials · doi:10.1002/adma.202303297 · Cited by 47

Boron‐Doped Nickel–Nitrogen–Carbon Single‐Atom Catalyst for Boosting Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Song, J., Xue, L., Mu, J., Li, J., Song, X., Li, Y., & Ding, Y. (2023) · Small · doi:10.1002/smll.202305666 · Cited by 47

General synthesis and atomic arrangement identification of ordered Bi–Pd intermetallics with tunable electrocatalytic CO2 reduction selectivity

Guo, W., Li, G., Bai, C., Liu, Q., Chen, F., & Chen, R. (2024) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46072-7 · Cited by 53

Synergistically enhanced ORR and HER performance on Co-N-C coupled in-situ generated PtCo intermetallic

Luo, G., Song, M. Y., An, L., Huang, X., Zhang, Q., Zhang, C., Shen, T., Wang, S., & Wang, D. (2024) · Journal of Energy Chemistry · doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2024.09.023 · Cited by 47

Gold Single Atom Doped Defective Nanoporous Copper Octahedrons for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene

Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Yu, Z., Song, C., Wang, J., Huang, H., Meng, L., Liu, M., & Liu, L. (2025) · ACS Nano · doi:10.1021/acsnano.4c13961 · Cited by 47

Combining the Active Site Construction and Microenvironment Regulation via a Bio‐Inspired Strategy Boosts CO2 Electroreduction Under Ampere‐Level Current Densities

Cai, H., Yang, H., Li, D., He, S., Zhang, X., Hu, Q. L., & He, C. (2025) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202425325 · Cited by 47

Single atom horizons for shaping the future of catalysis and sustainability: the next frontiers in energy conversion and storage

Yasin, G., Tabish, M., Ajmal, S., Zhuo, Q., Mushtaq, M. A., Saad, A., Alam, M. M., & Song, H. (2025) · Progress in Materials Science · doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2025.101525 · Cited by 47

Reticular materials for electrochemical reduction of CO2

Huang, X., & Zhang, Y. (2020) · Coordination Chemistry Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213564 · Cited by 47

pH and Anion Effects on Cu–Phosphate Interfaces for CO Electroreduction

Pascual, P. S., Petersen, A. S., Bagger, A., Rossmeisl, J., & Escudero‐Escribano, M. (2021) · ACS Catalysis · doi:10.1021/acscatal.0c03998 · Cited by 47

Electrolyzer and Catalysts Design from Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide Electrochemical Reduction

He, J., Li, Y., Huang, A., Liu, Q., & Li, C. (2021) · Electrochemical Energy Reviews · doi:10.1007/s41918-021-00100-y · Cited by 48

Strategies and challenges with the microbial conversion of methanol to high‐value chemicals

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