Gaining Deep Understanding of Electrochemical CO2RR with In Situ/Operando Techniques

Y Gong, T He - Small Methods, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalysis for CO2 conversion has been extensively studied to mitigate the energy
shortage and environmental issues, which are gaining ever‐increasing attention. However …

Vertical Cu Nanoneedle Arrays Enhance the Local Electric Field Promoting C2 Hydrocarbons in the CO2 Electroreduction

Y Zhou, Y Liang, J Fu, K Liu, Q Chen, X Wang, H Li… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to multicarbon products is a potential strategy to solve the
energy crisis while achieving carbon neutrality. To improve the efficiency of multicarbon …

Catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol over Cu-based catalysts: active sites profiling and regulation strategy as well as reaction pathway exploration

H Liang, G Zhang, Z Li, Y Zhang, P Fu - Fuel Processing Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The active sites of copper-based catalysts and their impacts on activity and selectivity are
first examined in this work, after which an overview of the regulation of the active sites and …

Influencing electrocatalytic processes through topographically disordered atomic sites

P Prabhu, JM Lee - Chem Catalysis, 2023 - cell.com
Catalysts saturated with highly reactive under-coordinated disordered atomic sites have
been leveraged upon as high-performance electrode materials that are capable of …

Sequential *CO management via controlling in situ reconstruction for efficient industrial-current-density CO2-to-C2+ electroreduction

M Wu, D Huang, F Lai, R Yang, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Sequentially managing the coverage and dimerization of* CO on the Cu catalysts is
desirable for industrial-current-density CO2 reduction (CO2R) to C2+, which required the …

NxC-Induced Switching of Methane and Ethylene Products' Selectivity from CO2 Electroreduction over Cu Catalyst

Y Cui, C Kong, C Yang, Y Su, Y Cheng, D Yao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Regulating the electronic properties or morphology feature of CO2 electroreduction catalysts
can maintain selectivity toward certain reduction products. Here we report a nitrogen doped …

Directing CO2 electroreduction pathways for selective C2 product formation using single-site doped copper catalysts

Z Li, P Wang, X Lyu, VKR Kondapalli, S Xiang… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Manipulating the selectivity-determining step in post-C–C coupling is crucial for enhancing
C2 product specificity during electrocatalytic CO2 reduction, complementing efforts to boost …

Copper defects for CO2 electrocatalysis toward a specific multicarbon product

AK Ummireddi, Z Li, J Wu - Trends in Chemistry, 2023 - cell.com
Defects on Cu surfaces are created to tune the selectivity of CO 2 electroreduction toward C
2+ products. However, mixed defect structures and the coexistence of defect-induced …

Trace level of atomic copper in N-doped graphene quantum dots switching the selectivity from C1 to C2 products in CO electroreduction

X Lyu, T Zhang, Z Li, CJ Jafta, A Serov, IH Hwang… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
To unravel the relationship between trace Cu on the metal-free catalysts toward CO/CO 2
reduction reaction (CO/CO 2 RR), we investigated the effect of trace Cu loading in N-doped …

Large-scale synthesis of metal/nitrogen Co-doped carbon catalysts for CO2 electroreduction

X Lyu, D Anastasiadou, J Raj, J Wu, Y Bai, J Li… - Electrochimica …, 2023 - Elsevier
Here, we report a facile approach for synthesizing M–N–C catalysts (M= Co, Fe, Ni) at a
commercial scale without employing organic solvents. Our characterization efforts indicate …