电催化剂
电解质
材料科学
电化学
铜
催化作用
法拉第效率
化学工程
电流密度
电极
无机化学
化学
冶金
有机化学
物理
物理化学
量子力学
工程类
作者
Zishan Han,Daliang Han,Zhe Chen,Jian Gao,Guangyi Jiang,Xinyu Wang,Shuaishuai Lyu,Yong Guo,Chuannan Geng,Lichang Yin,Zhe Weng,Quan‐Hong Yang
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-30819-1
摘要
Abstract Electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction to value-added hydrocarbon products using metallic copper (Cu) catalysts is a potentially sustainable approach to facilitate carbon neutrality. However, Cu metal suffers from unavoidable and uncontrollable surface reconstruction during electrocatalysis, which can have either adverse or beneficial effects on its electrocatalytic performance. In a break from the current catalyst design path, we propose a strategy guiding the reconstruction process in a favorable direction to improve the performance. Typically, the controlled surface reconstruction is facilely realized using an electrolyte additive, ethylenediamine tetramethylenephosphonic acid, to substantially promote CO 2 electroreduction to CH 4 for commercial polycrystalline Cu. As a result, a stable CH 4 Faradaic efficiency of 64% with a partial current density of 192 mA cm −2 , thus enabling an impressive CO 2 -to-CH 4 conversion rate of 0.25 µmol cm −2 s −1 , is achieved in an alkaline flow cell. We believe our study will promote the exploration of electrochemical reconstruction and provide a promising route for the discovery of high-performance electrocatalysts.
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