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Kang L, Zhang Y, Dong L, Yin S, Li B, Fan M, He H, Chen Z. Boron-Doping Engineering in AgCd Bimetallic Catalyst Enabling Efficient CO 2 Electroreduction to CO and Aqueous Zn-CO 2 Batteries. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2406510. [PMID: 39377316 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202406510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2024] [Revised: 09/13/2024] [Indexed: 10/09/2024]
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The limited adsorption and activation of CO2 on catalyst and the high energy barrier for intermediate formation hinder the development of electrochemical CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RR). Herein, this work reports a boron (B) doping engineering in AgCd bimetals to alleviate the above limitations for efficient CO2 electroreduction to CO and aqueous Zn-CO2 batteries. Specifically, the B-doped AgCd bimetallic catalyst (AgCd-B) is prepared via a simple reduction reaction at room temperature. A combination of in situ experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations demonstrates that B-doping simultaneously enhances the adsorption and activation of CO2 and reduces the binding energy of the intermediates by moderating the electronic structure of bimetals. As a result, the AgCd-B catalyst exhibits a high CO Faraday efficiency (FECO) of 99% at -0.8 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). Additionally, it maintains a FECO over 92% at a wide potential window of 600 mV (-0.6 to -1.1 V versus RHE). Furthermore, the AgCd-B catalyst coupled with the Zn anode to assemble aqueous Zn-CO2 batteries shows a power density of 20.18 mW cm-2 and a recharge time of 33 h.
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- Lan Kang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Featured Metal Materials and Life-cycle Safety for Composite Structures, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Featured Metal Materials and Life-cycle Safety for Composite Structures, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry Technology and Resource Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P. R. China
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Guan L, Fu H, Wang Y, Wang J, Zhang N, Liu T. Electrochemical Reduction of CO 2 into Syngas by N-Modified NiSb Nanowires. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:15821-15828. [PMID: 39136269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/27/2024]
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Carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) provides a promising method for syngas synthesis. However, it is challenging to balance the CO2RR activity and hydrogen (H2)/carbon monoxide (CO) ratios due to the limited mass transport and inefficient catalytic interface. Herein, we adopt a nitrogen (N)-modification method to synthesize N-modified nickel antimony nanowires (N-NiSb NWs/C), which are efficient for producing syngas with controllable H2/CO ratios. Significantly, the optimized N-NiSb NWs/C, with boosted electrochemical CO2RR activity, have the flexibility to control H2/CO ratios in syngas from nearly 1 to 4 in a wide potential range. The mechanistic discussion shows that the electronic structure of NiSb NWs/C can be optimized by using the synergistic effect between Ni and Sb, as well as the reasonable surface modification, so that a controllable syngas can be obtained. Our design provides an ideal platform for generating syngas with widely controllable H2/CO ratios.
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- Liheng Guan
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Institute of New Materials and Industry Technology, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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Cho JH, Ma J, Kim SY. Toward high-efficiency photovoltaics-assisted electrochemical and photoelectrochemical CO 2 reduction: Strategy and challenge. EXPLORATION (BEIJING, CHINA) 2023; 3:20230001. [PMID: 37933280 PMCID: PMC10582615 DOI: 10.1002/exp.20230001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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The realization of a complete techno-economy through a significant carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction in the atmosphere has been explored to promote a low-carbon economy in various ways. CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RRs) can be induced using sustainable energy, including electric and solar energy, using systems such as electrochemical (EC) CO2RR and photoelectrochemical (PEC) systems. This study summarizes various fabrication strategies for non-noble metal, copper-based, and metal-organic framework-based catalysts with excellent Faradaic efficiency (FE) for target carbon compounds, and for noble metals with low overvoltage. Although EC and PEC systems achieve high energy conversion efficiency with excellent catalysts, they still require external power and lack complete bias-free operation. Therefore, photovoltaics, which can overcome the limitations of these systems, have been introduced. The utilization of silicon and perovskite-based solar cells for photovoltaics-assisted EC (PV-EC) and photovoltaics-assisted PEC (PV-PEC) CO2RR systems are cost-efficient, and the III-V semiconductor photoabsorbers achieved high solar-to-carbon efficiency. This work focuses on PV-EC and PV-PEC CO2RR systems and their components and then summarizes the special cell configurations, including the tandem and stacked structures. Additionally, the study discusses current issues, such as low energy conversion, expensive PV, theoretical limits, and industrial scale-up, along with proposed solutions.
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- Jin Hyuk Cho
- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea UniversitySeoulRepublic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea UniversitySeoulRepublic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea UniversitySeoulRepublic of Korea
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Wang F, Wang G, Deng P, Chen Y, Li J, Wu D, Wang Z, Wang C, Hua Y, Tian X. Ultrathin Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Encapsulated Ni Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction and Aqueous Zn-CO 2 Batteries. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023:e2301128. [PMID: 36919799 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202301128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2 RR), powered by renewable electricity, has attracted great attention for producing high value-added fuels and chemicals, as well as feasibly mitigating CO2 emission problem. Here, this work reports a facile hard template strategy to prepare the Ni@N-C catalyst with core-shell structure, where nickel nanoparticles (Ni NPs) are encapsulated by thin nitrogen-doped carbon shells (N-C shells). The Ni@N-C catalyst has demonstrated a promising industrial current density of 236.7 mA cm-2 with the superb FECO of 97% at -1.1 V versus RHE. Moreover, Ni@N-C can drive the reversible Zn-CO2 battery with the largest power density of 1.64 mW cm-2 , and endure a tough cycling durability. These excellent performances are ascribed to the synergistic effect of Ni@N-C that Ni NPs can regulate the electronic microenvironment of N-doped carbon shells, which favor to enhance the CO2 adsorption capacity and the electron transfer capacity. Density functional theory calculations prove that the binding configuration of N-C located on the top of Ni slabs (Top-Ni@N-C) is the most thermodynamically stable and possess a lowest thermodynamic barrier for the formation of COOH* and the desorption of CO. This work may pioneer a new method on seeking high-efficiency and worthwhile electrocatalysts for CO2 RR and Zn-CO2 battery.
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- Fangyuan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion of Hainan Provinc, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion of Hainan Provinc, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, P. R. China
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Song Y, Mao J, Zhu C, Li S, Li G, Dong X, Jiang Z, Chen W, Wei W. Ni Nanoclusters Anchored on Ni-N-C Sites for CO 2 Electroreduction at High Current Densities. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:10785-10794. [PMID: 36802488 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c23095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Transition metal catalyst-based electrocatalytic CO2 reduction is a highly attractive approach to fulfill the renewable energy storage and a negative carbon cycle. However, it remains a great challenge for the earth-abundant VIII transition metal catalysts to achieve highly selective, active, and stable CO2 electroreduction. Herein, bamboo-like carbon nanotubes that anchor both Ni nanoclusters and atomically dispersed Ni-N-C sites (NiNCNT) are developed for exclusive CO2 conversion to CO at stable industry-relevant current densities. Through optimization of gas-liquid-catalyst interphases via hydrophobic modulation, NiNCNT exhibits as high as Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 99.3% for CO formation at a current density of -300 mA·cm-2 (-0.35 V vs reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE)), and even an extremely high CO partial current density (jCO) of -457 mA·cm-2 corresponding to a CO FE of 91.4% at -0.48 V vs RHE. Such superior CO2 electroreduction performance is ascribed to the enhanced electron transfer and local electron density of Ni 3d orbitals upon incorporation of Ni nanoclusters, which facilitates the formation of the COOH* intermediate.
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- Yanfang Song
- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China
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- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China
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- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201203, China
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Shang Y, Ding Y, Zhang P, Wang M, Jia Y, Xu Y, Li Y, Fan K, Sun L. Pyrrolic N or pyridinic N: The active center of N-doped carbon for CO2 reduction. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(22)64122-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Guan Y, Liu Y, Yi J, Zhang J. Zeolitic imidazolate framework-derived composites with SnO 2 and ZnO phase components for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:7274-7283. [PMID: 35481494 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt00906d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) and its derivatives have attracted a great deal of attention in the field of electrocatalysis. In this paper, a series of tin (Sn)-modified ZIF-based composites (ZSO-X/Y) are synthesized and used as catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to produce low-carbon fuels. Among the catalysts obtained, ZSO-2/8 shows the best formate (HCOO-) selectivity compared with others. A faradaic efficiency of 76.70% and a catalytic current density of -9.81 mA cm-2 can be respectively achieved at a potential of -1.16 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (VRHE). The high catalytic performance can be attributed to the stable coexistence of two-phase components of SnO2/ZnO inside the catalyst. This work provides an insight into the development of high performance ZIF-based catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2.
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- Yayu Guan
- Institute for Sustainable Energy, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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- Institute for Sustainable Energy, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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- Institute for Sustainable Energy, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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- Institute for Sustainable Energy, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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