Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 138-145Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.02.037
Keywords
Nanowire; Carbon dioxide reduction reaction; Electrocatalysis; CuSn; Modulated phase and structure
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Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology [2016YFA0204100, 2017YFA0208200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21571135]
- Young Thousand Talented Program
- Jiangsu Province Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [BK20170003]
- Project of Scientific and Technologic Infrastructure of Suzhou [SZS201708]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
- Soochow University
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While electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) is a highly desirable approach for converting CO2 into highly-valued fuels and chemicals, the design and create of efficient CO2 RR catalysts with excellent selectivity to desirable product and long-term stability still remains great challenge. In this work, we have successfully created a series of bimetallic CuSn nanowires (NWs) with modulated phases and structures as superior electrocatalysts for CO2RR. Three distinct CuSn NWs, namely, CuSn NWs/C-Air, CuSn NWs/C-H-2 and CuSn NWs/C-N-2, have been created by the combination of hydrothermal process and controlled thermal treatment in different atmospheres, where the optimized CuSn NWs/C-Air shows significant enhanced activity with the best formate selectivity of 90.2% at -1.0 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode under alkaline condition, which is much higher than those of CuSn NWs/C-H-2 (62.6%) and CuSn NWs/C-N-2 (64.3%). Moreover, the unique CuSn NWs/C-Air also exhibits enhanced stability without significant activity and selectivity degradation after continuous operating about 10 h. Density functional theory calculations reveal that Sn atoms doping into CuO(111) surface, enhancing the adsorption of CO2 intermediate *OCHO and suppressing H-2 production, could be the plausible site to realize the high selective CO2RR observed in CuSn NWs/C-Air. The realization of one-dimensional (1D) heterostructures with precisely modulated phases and structures hold significant promise for the design of efficient electrocatalysts and beyond.
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