Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon (C 2+) products: challenges and perspectives

B Chang, H Pang, F Raziq, S Wang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction has been developed as a promising and attractive strategy to
achieve carbon neutrality for sustainable chemical production. Among various reduction …

Local reaction environment in electrocatalysis

C Chen, H **, P Wang, X Sun, M Jaroniec… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Beyond conventional electrocatalyst engineering, recent studies have unveiled the
effectiveness of manipulating the local reaction environment in enhancing the performance …

Accelerating electrochemical CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products via asymmetric intermediate binding at confined nanointerfaces

J Zhang, C Guo, S Fang, X Zhao, L Li, H Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) to ethylene and ethanol enables the long-
term storage of renewable electricity in valuable multi-carbon (C2+) chemicals. However …

Coverage-driven selectivity switch from ethylene to acetate in high-rate CO2/CO electrolysis

P Wei, D Gao, T Liu, H Li, J Sang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tuning catalyst microenvironments by electrolytes and organic modifications is effective in
improving CO2 electrolysis performance. An alternative way is to use mixed CO/CO2 feeds …

Surface hydroxide promotes CO2 electrolysis to ethylene in acidic conditions

Y Cao, Z Chen, P Li, A Ozden, P Ou, W Ni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Performing CO2 reduction in acidic conditions enables high single-pass CO2 conversion
efficiency. However, a faster kinetics of the hydrogen evolution reaction compared to CO2 …

Bifunctional ionomers for efficient co-electrolysis of CO2 and pure water towards ethylene production at industrial-scale current densities

W Li, Z Yin, Z Gao, G Wang, Z Li, F Wei, X Wei, H Peng… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Many CO2 electrolysers under development use liquid electrolytes (KOH solutions, for
example), yet using solid-state polymer electrolytes can in principle improve efficiency and …

Regulating reconstruction of oxide-derived Cu for electrochemical CO2 reduction toward n-propanol

C Long, X Liu, K Wan, Y Jiang, P An, C Yang, G Wu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Oxide-derived copper (OD-Cu) is the most efficient and likely practical electrocatalyst for
CO2 reduction toward multicarbon products. However, the inevitable but poorly understood …

CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid

JE Huang, F Li, A Ozden, A Sedighian Rasouli… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Carbon dioxide electroreduction (CO2R) is being actively studied as a promising route to
convert carbon emissions to valuable chemicals and fuels. However, the fraction of input …

Rational design of electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction for a zero-carbon network

L Li, X Li, Y Sun, Y **e - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction has attracted much attention for its potential application in
CO2 mitigation and fuel production. During the past two decades, the electrocatalytic …

Modulating electric field distribution by alkali cations for CO2 electroreduction in strongly acidic medium

J Gu, S Liu, W Ni, W Ren, S Haussener, X Hu - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The reaction of carbon dioxide with hydroxide to form carbonate in near-neutral or alkaline
medium severely limits the energy and carbon efficiency of CO2 electroreduction. Here we …