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da Cunha SC, Resasco J. Maximizing single-pass conversion does not result in practical readiness for CO 2 reduction electrolyzers. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5513. [PMID: 37679385 PMCID: PMC10484981 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41348-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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The authors comment that maximizing product concentration is a more meaningful target for CO2 electrolyzers than maximizing single-pass conversion.
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- Shashwati C da Cunha
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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Resasco J, Christopher P. Atomically Dispersed Pt-group Catalysts: Reactivity, Uniformity, Structural Evolution, and Paths to Increased Functionality. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:10114-10123. [PMID: 33191757 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The development of experimental and computational tools that give accurate and visual active site descriptions has renewed research interest in atomically dispersed metal catalysts. In this perspective, we describe our approach to synthesizing and understanding atomically dispersed Pt-group metals on oxide supports. Using site-specific characterization, we show that these metal species have distinct reactivity from metal clusters. We argue that producing materials where all metal sites have identical local coordination is key to both accurately assessing catalytic properties and achieving single-site behavior. Methods for assessing site uniformity are considered. We show that producing uniform metal species allows us to describe their structure at the atomic scale and understand how this structure evolves under different conditions. Finally, we suggest pathways to increased functionality for atomically dispersed catalysts, through control of their local coordination and steric environment and through cooperativity with different sites.
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- Joaquin Resasco
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93117, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93117, United States
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Shetty M, Walton A, Gathmann SR, Ardagh MA, Gopeesingh J, Resasco J, Birol T, Zhang Q, Tsapatsis M, Vlachos DG, Christopher P, Frisbie CD, Abdelrahman OA, Dauenhauer PJ. The Catalytic Mechanics of Dynamic Surfaces: Stimulating Methods for Promoting Catalytic Resonance. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Manish Shetty
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst, 686 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Engineering II Building, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Maryland 20723, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- University of California Santa Barbara, Engineering II Building, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, 686 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, 150 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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Resasco J, DeRita L, Dai S, Chada JP, Xu M, Yan X, Finzel J, Hanukovich S, Hoffman AS, Graham GW, Bare SR, Pan X, Christopher P. Uniformity Is Key in Defining Structure–Function Relationships for Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts: The Case of Pt/CeO2. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 142:169-184. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Joaquin Resasco
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Fok Ying Tung Research Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou 511458, PR China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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Resasco J, Yang F, Mou T, Wang B, Christopher P, Resasco DE. Relationship between Atomic Scale Structure and Reactivity of Pt Catalysts: Hydrodeoxygenation of m-Cresol over Isolated Pt Cations and Clusters. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Joaquin Resasco
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering and Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering and Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering and Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering and Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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DeRita L, Resasco J, Dai S, Boubnov A, Thang HV, Hoffman AS, Ro I, Graham GW, Bare SR, Pacchioni G, Pan X, Christopher P. Structural evolution of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts dictates reactivity. Nat Mater 2019; 18:746-751. [PMID: 31011216 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0349-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The use of oxide-supported isolated Pt-group metal atoms as catalytic active sites is of interest due to their unique reactivity and efficient metal utilization. However, relationships between the structure of these active sites, their dynamic response to environments and catalytic functionality have proved difficult to experimentally establish. Here, sinter-resistant catalysts where Pt was deposited uniformly as isolated atoms in well-defined locations on anatase TiO2 nanoparticle supports were used to develop such relationships. Through a combination of in situ atomic-resolution microscopy- and spectroscopy-based characterization supported by first-principles calculations it was demonstrated that isolated Pt species can adopt a range of local coordination environments and oxidation states, which evolve in response to varied environmental conditions. The variation in local coordination showed a strong influence on the chemical reactivity and could be exploited to control the catalytic performance.
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- Leo DeRita
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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- Insoo Ro
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93117, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93117, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93117, United States
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Clark EL, Resasco J, Landers A, Lin J, Chung LT, Walton A, Hahn C, Jaramillo TF, Bell AT. Standards and Protocols for Data Acquisition and Reporting for Studies of the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Ezra L. Clark
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joaquin Resasco
- Department of Chemical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720
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Resasco J, Chen LD, Clark E, Tsai C, Hahn C, Jaramillo TF, Chan K, Bell AT. Promoter Effects of Alkali Metal Cations on the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:11277-11287. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 423] [Impact Index Per Article: 60.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Joaquin Resasco
- Department of Chemical
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of
Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Resasco J, Zhang H, Kornienko N, Becknell N, Lee H, Guo J, Briseno A, Yang P. TiO2/BiVO4 Nanowire Heterostructure Photoanodes Based on Type II Band Alignment. ACS Cent Sci 2016; 2:80-8. [PMID: 27163032 PMCID: PMC4827543 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2015] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Metal oxides that absorb visible light are attractive for use as photoanodes in photoelectrosynthetic cells. However, their performance is often limited by poor charge carrier transport. We show that this problem can be addressed by using separate materials for light absorption and carrier transport. Here, we report a Ta:TiO2|BiVO4 nanowire photoanode, in which BiVO4 acts as a visible light-absorber and Ta:TiO2 acts as a high surface area electron conductor. Electrochemical and spectroscopic measurements provide experimental evidence for the type II band alignment necessary for favorable electron transfer from BiVO4 to TiO2. The host-guest nanowire architecture presented here allows for simultaneously high light absorption and carrier collection efficiency, with an onset of anodic photocurrent near 0.2 V vs RHE, and a photocurrent density of 2.1 mA/cm(2) at 1.23 V vs RHE.
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- Joaquin Resasco
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Physics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 200-701, South Korea
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- Advanced
Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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L. Briseno
- Department
of Polymer Science & Engineering, Conte Polymer Research Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division and Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Dou L, Cui F, Yu Y, Khanarian G, Eaton SW, Yang Q, Resasco J, Schildknecht C, Schierle-Arndt K, Yang P. Solution-Processed Copper/Reduced-Graphene-Oxide Core/Shell Nanowire Transparent Conductors. ACS Nano 2016; 10:2600-2606. [PMID: 26820809 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Copper nanowire (Cu NW) based transparent conductors are promising candidates to replace ITO (indium-tin-oxide) owing to the high electrical conductivity and low-cost of copper. However, the relatively low performance and poor stability of Cu NWs under ambient conditions limit the practical application of these devices. Here, we report a solution-based approach to wrap graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets on the surface of ultrathin copper nanowires. By mild thermal annealing, GO can be reduced and high quality Cu r-GO core-shell NWs can be obtained. High performance transparent conducting films were fabricated with these ultrathin core-shell nanowires and excellent optical and electric performance was achieved. The core-shell NW structure enables the production of highly stable conducting films (over 200 days stored in air), which have comparable performance to ITO and silver NW thin films (sheet resistance ∼28 Ω/sq, haze ∼2% at transmittance of ∼90%).
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- Letian Dou
- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- California Research Alliance by BASF, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- California Research Alliance by BASF, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- BASF Corporation , Union, New Jersey 07083, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- California Research Alliance by BASF, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- California Research Alliance by BASF, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- California Research Alliance by BASF, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Becknell N, Kang Y, Chen C, Resasco J, Kornienko N, Guo J, Markovic NM, Somorjai GA, Stamenkovic VR, Yang P. Atomic Structure of Pt3Ni Nanoframe Electrocatalysts by in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:15817-24. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b09639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Nigel Becknell
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Nichols EM, Gallagher JJ, Liu C, Su Y, Resasco J, Yu Y, Sun Y, Yang P, Chang MCY, Chang CJ. Hybrid bioinorganic approach to solar-to-chemical conversion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:11461-6. [PMID: 26305947 PMCID: PMC4577177 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508075112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Natural photosynthesis harnesses solar energy to convert CO2 and water to value-added chemical products for sustaining life. We present a hybrid bioinorganic approach to solar-to-chemical conversion in which sustainable electrical and/or solar input drives production of hydrogen from water splitting using biocompatible inorganic catalysts. The hydrogen is then used by living cells as a source of reducing equivalents for conversion of CO2 to the value-added chemical product methane. Using platinum or an earth-abundant substitute, α-NiS, as biocompatible hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts and Methanosarcina barkeri as a biocatalyst for CO2 fixation, we demonstrate robust and efficient electrochemical CO2 to CH4 conversion at up to 86% overall Faradaic efficiency for ≥ 7 d. Introduction of indium phosphide photocathodes and titanium dioxide photoanodes affords a fully solar-driven system for methane generation from water and CO2, establishing that compatible inorganic and biological components can synergistically couple light-harvesting and catalytic functions for solar-to-chemical conversion.
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- Eva M Nichols
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Kornienko N, Resasco J, Becknell N, Jiang CM, Liu YS, Nie K, Sun X, Guo J, Leone SR, Yang P. Operando Spectroscopic Analysis of an Amorphous Cobalt Sulfide Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalyst. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:7448-55. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nikolay Kornienko
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Advanced
Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Advanced
Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Soochow University-Western University Centre for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Soochow University-Western University Centre for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Advanced
Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Kim D, Resasco J, Yu Y, Asiri AM, Yang P. Synergistic geometric and electronic effects for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide using gold–copper bimetallic nanoparticles. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4948. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 908] [Impact Index Per Article: 90.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 08/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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