Multiscale CO2 Electrocatalysis to C2+ Products: Reaction Mechanisms, Catalyst Design, and Device Fabrication

T Yan, X Chen, L Kumari, J Lin, M Li, Q Fan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrosynthesis of value-added chemicals, directly from CO2, could foster achievement of
carbon neutral through an alternative electrical approach to the energy-intensive …

Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers

D Wakerley, S Lamaison, J Wicks, A Clemens… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
CO2 emissions can be recycled via low-temperature CO2 electrolysis to generate products
such as carbon monoxide, ethanol, ethylene, acetic acid, formic acid and propanol. In recent …

Room-temperature photosynthesis of propane from CO2 with Cu single atoms on vacancy-rich TiO2

Y Shen, C Ren, L Zheng, X Xu, R Long… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photochemical conversion of CO2 into high-value C2+ products is difficult to achieve due to
the energetic and mechanistic challenges in forming multiple CC bonds. Herein, an efficient …

Boosting electrocatalytic CO2–to–ethanol production via asymmetric C–C coupling

P Wang, H Yang, C Tang, Y Wu, Y Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into multicarbon products provides possibility of
large-scale chemicals production and is therefore of significant research and commercial …

Electrocatalytic CO2-to-C2+ with Ampere-Level Current on Heteroatom-Engineered Copper via Tuning *CO Intermediate Coverage

M Zheng, P Wang, X Zhi, K Yang, Y Jiao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An ampere-level current density of CO2 electrolysis is critical to realize the industrial
production of multicarbon (C2+) fuels. However, under such a large current density, the poor …

Rational design of electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction for a zero-carbon network

L Li, X Li, Y Sun, Y Xie - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction has attracted much attention for its potential application in
CO2 mitigation and fuel production. During the past two decades, the electrocatalytic …

Identification of Cu(100)/Cu(111) Interfaces as Superior Active Sites for CO Dimerization During CO2 Electroreduction

ZZ Wu, XL Zhang, ZZ Niu, FY Gao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electrosynthesis of valuable multicarbon chemicals using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a
feedstock has substantially progressed recently but still faces considerable challenges. A …

Localized Alkaline Environment via In Situ Electrostatic Confinement for Enhanced CO2-to-Ethylene Conversion in Neutral Medium

Z Wang, Y Li, X Zhao, S Chen, Q Nian… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is one of the most promising routes to
facilitate carbon neutrality. An alkaline electrolyte is typically needed to promote the …

Highly selective and productive reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products via in situ CO management using segmented tandem electrodes

T Zhang, JC Bui, Z Li, AT Bell, AZ Weber, J Wu - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical CO2 reduction provides a promising route to the sustainable generation of
valuable chemicals and fuels. Tandem catalysts enable sequential CO2-to-CO and CO-to …

Tunable CO2 electroreduction to ethanol and ethylene with controllable interfacial wettability

Y Lin, T Wang, L Zhang, G Zhang, L Li, Q Chang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The mechanism of how interfacial wettability impacts the CO2 electroreduction pathways to
ethylene and ethanol remains unclear. This paper describes the design and realization of …