Stability Issues in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: Recent Advances in Fundamental Understanding and Design Strategies

W Lai, Y Qiao, Y Wang, H Huang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) offers a promising approach to close the
anthropogenic carbon cycle and store intermittent renewable energy in fuels or chemicals …

Contact-electro-catalysis (CEC)

Z Wang, X Dong, W Tang, ZL Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Contact-electro-catalysis (CEC) is an emerging field that utilizes electron transfer occurring
at the liquid–solid and even liquid–liquid interfaces because of the contact-electrification …

Durable CO2 conversion in the proton-exchange membrane system

W Fang, W Guo, R Lu, Y Yan, X Liu, D Wu, FM Li… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Electrolysis that reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) to useful chemicals can, in principle,
contribute to a more sustainable and carbon-neutral future,,,,–. However, it remains …

Different distributions of multi-carbon products in CO2 and CO electroreduction under practical reaction conditions

JYT Kim, C Sellers, S Hao, TP Senftle, H Wang - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Product selectivity differences between the electroreduction of CO2 and CO under practical
current densities are a widely encountered phenomenon that is rarely emphasized or …

Cascade Dual Sites Modulate Local CO Coverage and Hydrogen-Binding Strength to Boost CO2 Electroreduction to Ethylene

J Li, Y Chen, B Yao, W Yang, X Cui, H Liu… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rationally modulating the binding strength of reaction intermediates on surface sites of
copper-based catalysts could facilitate C–C coupling to generate multicarbon products in an …

Potential Alignment in Tandem Catalysts Enhances CO2-to-C2H4 Conversion Efficiencies

M Liu, Q Wang, T Luo, M Herran, X Cao… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The in-tandem catalyst holds great promise for addressing the limitation of low* CO
coverage on Cu-based materials for selective C2H4 generation during CO2 …

Reduction of CO2 to chemicals and Fuels: Thermocatalysis versus electrocatalysis

J Gao, SCS Shiong, Y Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Reducing carbon dioxide to valuable chemicals and fuels such as formic acid, carbon
monoxide, methanol, methane, ethylene, ethanol, and multi-carbon (C2+) products by …

Low‐coordination Nanocrystalline Copper‐based Catalysts through Theory‐guided Electrochemical Restructuring for Selective CO2 Reduction to Ethylene

W Fang, R Lu, FM Li, C He, D Wu, K Yue… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Revealing the dynamic reconstruction process and tailoring advanced copper (Cu) catalysts
is of paramount significance for promoting the conversion of CO2 into ethylene (C2H4) …

N and OH-Immobilized Cu3 Clusters In Situ Reconstructed from Single-Metal Sites for Efficient CO2 Electromethanation in Bicontinuous Mesochannels

F Pan, L Fang, B Li, X Yang, T O'Carroll… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cu-based catalysts hold promise for electrifying CO2 to produce methane, an extensively
used fuel. However, the activity and selectivity remain insufficient due to the lack of catalyst …

Nanocluster Surface Microenvironment Modulates Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

S Yoo, S Yoo, G Deng, F Sun, K Lee, H Jang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The catalytic activity and product selectivity of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction
(eCO2RR) depend strongly on the local microenvironment of mass diffusion at the …