Cu/Cu2O nanocrystals for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction to multi-carbon products

Yisen Yang; Zhonghao Tan; Sha Wang; Yanyue Wang; Jingyang Hu; Zhuizhui Su; Yingzhe Zhao; Jing Tai; Jianling Zhang

doi:10.1039/d2cc06986e

Cu/Cu₂O nanocrystals for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction to multi-carbon products

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Feb 23;59(17):2445-2448. doi: 10.1039/d2cc06986e.

Authors

Yisen Yang^{1

2}, Zhonghao Tan^{1

2}, Sha Wang^{1

2}, Yanyue Wang^{1

2}, Jingyang Hu^{1

2}, Zhuizhui Su^{1

2}, Yingzhe Zhao^{1

2}, Jing Tai¹, Jianling Zhang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. zhangjl@iccas.ac.cn.
² School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China.

PMID: 36734610
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc06986e

Abstract

We demonstrate the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into multi-carbon products catalyzed by Cu/Cu₂O nanocrystals, with a maximum C₂₊ faradaic efficiency of 75% in 0.10 M K₂SO₄ aqueous solution at -2.0 V versus Ag/AgCl and a partial current density of 34 mA cm^-2.