催化作用
法拉第效率
材料科学
氢
电化学
制氢
可逆氢电极
手性(物理)
太阳能燃料
化学工程
碳氢化合物
能量转换效率
燃料电池
电极
光化学
无机化学
人工光合作用
分解水
氢燃料
电催化剂
纳米技术
组合化学
辅助电极
作者
Donghyun Kim,Subin Moon,Wooyong Jeong,Chang-Seop Jeong,Jun Hwan Kim,Hyungsoo Lee,Young Sun Park,Soobin Lee,Jeongjun Lee,Sang Yeop Park,Seonyoo Kim,Jaeeon Lim,Jihwon Park,Sooyeon Kim,Jooho Moon
摘要
ABSTRACT Although electrochemical CO 2 ‐to‐CH 4 conversion offers a viable pathway to sustainable fuel synthesis, its efficiency is limited by the difficulty of balancing the availability of reactive hydrogen species for multistep CO 2 hydrogenation against the suppression of the competing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Here, we establish a spin‐selective catalytic strategy using Ag‐modified chiral Cu electrocatalysts to overcome this intrinsic trade‐off. Structural chirality in the Cu framework induces chirality‐induced spin selectivity, which disfavors spin‐singlet H 2 formation, thereby mitigating the HER and favoring productive hydrogen utilization toward CO 2 hydrogenation. Ag modification facilitates the supply of *CO intermediates on adjacent Cu sites. Thus, the chiral Ag/Cu catalyst selectively drives CO 2 reduction toward CH 4 , delivering a CH 4 Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 67.0% at −0.7 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode while suppressing the HER. When coupled with perovskite‐based photoelectrochemical electrodes, the chiral catalyst enables unassisted solar‐driven CO 2 ‐to‐CH 4 conversion with an FE CH4 of 54.1% and a solar‐to‐fuel efficiency of 5.86%. These results suggest spin‐selective hydrogen utilization as an effective approach to selective hydrocarbon synthesis and bias‐free solar CO 2 ‐to‐fuel conversion.
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