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Zhang H, Liang Q, Xie K. How to rationally design homogeneous catalysts for efficient CO 2 electroreduction? iScience 2024; 27:108973. [PMID: 38327791 PMCID: PMC10847752 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Electrified converting CO2 into valuable fuels and chemicals using a homogeneous electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2ER) approach simplifies the operation, providing a potential option for decoupling energy harvesting and renewable chemical production. These merits benefit the scenarios where decentralization and intermittent power are key factors. This perspective aims to provide an overview of recent progress in homogeneous CO2ER. We introduce firstly the fundamentals chemistry of the homogeneous CO2ER, followed by a summary of the crucial factors and the important criteria broadly employed for evaluating the performance. We then highlight the recent advances in the most widely explored transition-metal coordinate complexes for the C1 and multicarbon (C2+) products from homogeneous CO2ER. Finally, we summarize the remaining challenges and opportunities for developing homogeneous electrocatalysts for efficient CO2ER. This perspective is expected to favor the rational design of efficient homogeneous electrocatalysts for selective CO2ER toward renewable fuels and feedstocks.
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- Hui Zhang
- International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Rare Earths, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, P.R. China
- Ganjiang Innovation Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern Universiy, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Liang J, Zhang H, Song Q, Liu Z, Xia J, Yan B, Meng X, Jiang Z, Lou XWD, Lee CS. Modulating Charge Separation of Oxygen-Doped Boron Nitride with Isolated Co Atoms for Enhancing CO 2 -to-CO Photoreduction. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2303287. [PMID: 37973198 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202303287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Revised: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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To alleviate the greenhouse effect and address the related energy crisis, solar-driven reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) to value-added products is considered as a sustainable strategy. However, the insufficient separation and rapid recombination of photogenerated charge carriers during photocatalysis greatly limit their reduction efficiency and practical application potential. Here, isolated Cobalt (Co) atoms are successfully decorated into oxygen-doped boron nitride (BN) via an in situ pyrolysis method, achieving greatly improved catalytic activity and selectivity to the carbon monoxide (CO) product. X-ray absorption fine spectroscopy demonstrates that the isolated Co atoms are stabilized by the O and N atoms with an unsaturated CoO2 N1 configuration. Further experimental investigation and theoretical simulations confirm that the decorated Co atoms not only work as the real active center during the CO2 reduction process, but also perform as the electron pump to promote the electron/hole separation and transfer, resulting in greatly accelerated reaction kinetics and improved activity. In addition, the CoO2 N1 coordination geometry is favorable to the conversion from *CO2 to *COOH, which shall be considered as a selectivity-determining step for the evolution of the CO products. The surface modulation strategy at the atomic level opens a new avenue for regulating the reaction kinetics for photocatalytic CO2 reduction.
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- Jianli Liang
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China
- Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, P. R. China
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- Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212013, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212013, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China
- Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China
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Lu S, Mazur M, Guo K, Stoian DC, Gu M, Tucho WM, Yu Z. Breaking Scaling Relations for Highly Efficient Electroreduction of CO 2 to CO on Atomically Dispersed Heteronuclear Dual-Atom Catalyst. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023:e2309251. [PMID: 37948352 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202309251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Conversion of CO2 into value-added products by electrocatalysis provides a promising way to mitigate energy and environmental problems. However, it is greatly limited by the scaling relationship between the adsorption strength of intermediates. Herein, Mn and Ni single-atom catalysts, homonuclear dual-atom catalysts (DACs), and heteronuclear DACs are synthesized. Aberration-corrected annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (ADF-STEM) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy characterization uncovered the existence of the Mn─Ni pair in Mn─Ni DAC. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy reveal that Mn donated electrons to Ni atoms in Mn─Ni DAC. Consequently, Mn─Ni DAC displays the highest CO Faradaic efficiency of 98.7% at -0.7 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (vs RHE) with CO partial current density of 16.8 mA cm-2 . Density functional theory calculations disclose that the scaling relationship between the binding strength of intermediates is broken, resulting in superior performance for ECR to CO over Mn─Ni─NC catalyst.
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- Song Lu
- Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, 4036, Norway
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- Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague 2, 12843, Czech Republic
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Cedex 9, Grenoble, 38043, France
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- Center for Analysis and Testing, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Material Science, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, 4036, Norway
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- Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, 4036, Norway
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Chen Z, Cao S, Li J, Yang C, Wei S, Liu S, Wang Z, Lu X. N,S coordination in Ni single-atom catalyst promoting CO 2RR towards HCOOH. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:29951-29959. [PMID: 37902067 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03722c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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Carbon-based single atom catalysts (SACs) are attracting extensive attention in the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) due to their maximal atomic utilization, easily regulated active center and high catalytic activity, in which the coordination environment plays a crucial role in the intrinsic catalytic activity. Taking NiN4 as an example, this study reveals that the introduction of different numbers of S atoms into N coordination (Ni-NxS4-x (x = 1-4)) results in outstanding structural stability and catalytic activity. Owing to the additional orbitals around -1.60 eV and abundant Ni dxz, dyz, dx2, and dz2 orbital occupation after S substitution, N,S coordination can effectively facilitate the protonation of adsorbed intermediates and thus accelerate the overall CO2RR. The CO2RR mechanisms for CO and HCOOH generation via two-electron pathways are systematically elucidated on NiN4, NiN3S1 and NiN2S2. NiN2S2 yields HCOOH as the most favorable product with a limiting potential of -0.24 V, surpassing NiN4 (-1.14 V) and NiN3S1 (-0.50 V), which indicates that the different S-atom substitution of NiN4 has considerable influence on the CO2RR performance. This work highlights NiN2S2 as a high-performance CO2RR catalyst to produce HCOOH, and demonstrates that N,S coordination is an effective strategy to regulate the performance of atomically dispersed electrocatalysts.
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- Zengxuan Chen
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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- College of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China.
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Lu S, Lou F, Zhao Y, Yu Z. Regulating the coordination environment of single-atom catalysts for electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 646:301-310. [PMID: 37201458 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.05.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) through single-atom catalysts (SACs) consisting of transition metals (TMs) anchored on nitrogenated carbon (TM-N-C) has shown promise for carbon neutralization. However, high overpotentials and low selectivity are still issues. Regulating the coordination environment of anchored TM atom is important to address these problems. In this study, we evaluated nonmetal atom (NM = B, O, F, Si, P, S, Cl, As and Se) modified TM (TM = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn)@N4-C catalysts for their ECR to CO performance using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. NM dopants can induce active center distortion and tune electron structure, promoting intermediate formation. Doping heteroatoms can improve ECR to CO activity on Ni and Cu@N4 but worsen it on Co@N4 catalysts. Fe@N4-F1(I), Ni@N3-B1, Cu@N4-O1(III), and Zn@N4-Cl1(II) have excellent activity for ECR to CO, with overpotentials of 0.75, 0.49, 0.43, and 0.15 V, respectively, and improved selectivity. The catalytic performance is related to the intermediate binding strength, as evidenced by d band center, charge density difference, crystal orbital Hamilton population (COHP), and integrated COHP (ICOHP). It is expected that our work can be used as the design principle to guide the synthesis of the high-performance heteroatoms modified SACs for ECR to CO.
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- Song Lu
- Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
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- School of Physics and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.
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- Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway; Institute of New Energy, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China.
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Wang H, Jiao Y, Wu B, Wang D, Hu Y, Liang F, Shen C, Knauer A, Ren D, Wang H, van Aken PA, Zhang H, Sofer Z, Grätzel M, Schaaf P. Exfoliated 2D Layered and Nonlayered Metal Phosphorous Trichalcogenides Nanosheets as Promising Electrocatalysts for CO 2 Reduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202217253. [PMID: 36744542 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) materials catalysts provide an atomic-scale view on a fascinating arena for understanding the mechanism of electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2 ECR). Here, we successfully exfoliated both layered and nonlayered ultra-thin metal phosphorous trichalcogenides (MPCh3 ) nanosheets via wet grinding exfoliation (WGE), and systematically investigated the mechanism of MPCh3 as catalysts for CO2 ECR. Unlike the layered CoPS3 and NiPS3 nanosheets, the active Sn atoms tend to be exposed on the surfaces of nonlayered SnPS3 nanosheets. Correspondingly, the nonlayered SnPS3 nanosheets exhibit clearly improved catalytic activity, showing formic acid selectivity up to 31.6 % with -7.51 mA cm-2 at -0.65 V vs. RHE. The enhanced catalytic performance can be attributed to the formation of HCOO* via the first proton-electron pair addition on the SnPS3 surface. These results provide a new avenue to understand the novel CO2 ECR mechanism of Sn-based and MPCh3 -based catalysts.
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- Honglei Wang
- Chair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany
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- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Chair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany
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- Chair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany
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- Institut für Materialwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Materialwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies MacroNano®, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff- Str.7, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany
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- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, P. R. China
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institut für Materialwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chair Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany
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