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- Title
Rare‐Earth Single Erbium Atoms for Enhanced Photocatalytic CO<sub>2</sub> Reduction.
- Authors
Ji, Shufang; Qu, Yang; Wang, Tao; Chen, Yuanjun; Wang, Guofeng; Li, Xue; Dong, Juncai; Chen, QiuYu; Zhang, Wanying; Zhang, Zedong; Liang, Shiyou; Yu, Rong; Wang, Yu; Wang, Dingsheng; Li, Yadong
- Abstract
The solar‐driven photocatalytic reduction of CO2 (CO2RR) into chemical fuels is a promising route to enrich energy supplies and mitigate CO2 emissions. However, low catalytic efficiency and poor selectivity, especially in a pure‐water system, hinder the development of photocatalytic CO2RR owing to the lack of effective catalysts. Herein, we report a novel atom‐confinement and coordination (ACC) strategy to achieve the synthesis of rare‐earth single erbium (Er) atoms supported on carbon nitride nanotubes (Er1/CN‐NT) with a tunable dispersion density of single atoms. Er1/CN‐NT is a highly efficient and robust photocatalyst that exhibits outstanding CO2RR performance in a pure‐water system. Experimental results and density functional theory calculations reveal the crucial role of single Er atoms in promoting photocatalytic CO2RR.
- Subjects
PHOTOREDUCTION; ERBIUM; ATOMS; NITRIDES; DENSITY functional theory; POWER resources; CARBON nanotubes
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 26, p10738
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202003623