Customizing catalyst surface/interface structures for electrochemical CO₂reduction

Abstract

Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) provides a promising route to converting CO2 into value-added chemicals and to neutralizing the greenhouse gas emission. For the industrial application of CO2RR, high-performance electrocatalysts...

Enhancing local K+ adsorption by high-density cube corners for efficient electroreduction of CO2 to C2+ products

“…Nevertheless, the thermodynamics and kinetics of C–C coupling are relatively slow in the CO 2 RR. 8,22–26 Therefore, modification of Cu-based catalysts, such as crystal surface modulation, 27–29 surface restructuring, 30–33 and oxidation state optimization, 16,34–36 to improve the efficiency of C 2+ products remains a hot topic and challenge. The adjustment of the crystal surface or surface structure has a significant effect on improving the performance of Cu-based catalysts.…”