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- Title
Asymmetric Local Electric Field Induced by Dual Heteroatoms on Copper Boosts Efficient CO<sub>2</sub> Reduction Over Ultrawide Potential Window.
- Authors
Xie, Feng; Wang, Zhen; Kao, Cheng‐Wei; Lan, Jiao; Lu, Ying‐Rui; Tan, Yongwen
- Abstract
Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 powered by renewable electricity provides an elegant route for converting CO2 into valuable chemicals and feedstocks, but normally suffers from a high overpotential and low selectivity. Herein, Ag and Sn heteroatoms were simultaneously introduced into nanoporous Cu (np‐Ag/Sn−Cu) mainly in the form of an asymmetric local electric field for CO2 electroreduction to CO in an aqueous solution. The designed np‐Ag/Sn−Cu catalyst realizes a recorded 90 % energy efficiency and a 100 % CO Faradaic efficiency over ultrawide potential window (ΔE=1.4 V), outperforming state‐of‐the‐art Au and Ag‐based catalysts. Density functional theory calculations combined with in situ spectroscopy studies reveal that Ag and Sn heteroatoms incorporated into Cu matrix could generate strong and asymmetric local electric field, which promotes the activation of CO2 molecules, enhances the stabilization of the *COOH intermediate, and suppresses the hydrogen evolution reaction, thus favoring the production of CO during CO2RR.
- Subjects
HYDROGEN evolution reactions; ELECTRIC fields; COPPER; DENSITY functional theory; AQUEOUS solutions; ELECTROLYTIC reduction
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 37, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202407661