Sulfur Changes the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Pathway over Cu Electrocatalysts

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Electrochemical CO2 reduction to value-added chemicals or fuels offers a promising approach to reduce carbon emissions and alleviate energy shortage. Cu-based electrocatalysts have been widely reported as capable of reducing CO2 to produce a variety of multicarbon products (e.g., ethylene and ethanol). In this work, we develop sulfur-doped Cu2 O electrocatalysts, which instead can electrochemically reduce CO2 to almost exclusively formate. We show that a dynamic equilibrium of S exists at the Cu2 O-electrolyte interface, and S-doped Cu2 O undergoes in situ surface reconstruction to generate active S-adsorbed metallic Cu sites during the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2 RR). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations together with in situ infrared absorption spectroscopy measurements show that the S-adsorbed metallic Cu surface can not only promote the formation of the *OCHO intermediate but also greatly suppress *H and *COOH adsorption, thus facilitating CO2 -to-formate conversion during the electrochemical CO2 RR.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:62

Enthalten in:

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 62(2023), 44 vom: 26. Okt., Seite e202310740

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liang, Shuyu [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Jiewen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Tianyu [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CO2 Reduction Reaction
Cu-Based Electrocatalysts
Electrocatalysis
Formic Acid
Journal Article
S Modification

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Date Revised 20.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/anie.202310740

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362005354