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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 44, Issue 39, Pages 21597-21606Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.06.102
Keywords
Carbonized Zn/Co ZIF; Coordinatively unsaturated metal-nitrogen sites; CO2 photoelectrochemical reduction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51676171]
- National Key Technologies Research and Development Program-China [2016YFE0117900]
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Porous carbon-based catalysts facilitate CO2 photoelectrochemical reduction reaction (CO2PRR) through the high charge transfer ability and CO2 adsorption ability. However, the design of catalysts with high selectivity towards high-order solar fuels (such as ethanol and propanol) remains challenging. Herein, catalysts of carbonized Zn/Co Zeolitic Imidazolat Frameworks with various pyrolysis hours (xh-C-Zn/Co ZIFs) were synthesized and accessed for high selective CO2PRR for the first time. XRD and TEM analyses show that the C containing functional groups in pristine Zn/Co ZIF are carbonized and turned into amorphous porous carbon, while many Co and ZnO nanoparticles are formed during the pyrolysis process. Electrochemical characterizations of the catalysts prove that increasing pyrolysis time of Zn/Co ZIF from 1 h to 3 h, resulting in a decreased light current density from 3.3 mA/cm(2) to 2.3 mA/cm(2), which is much higher than that of Zn/Co ZIF (1.9 mA/cm(2)). Meanwhile, increasing pyrolysis time of Zn/Co ZIF from 1 h to 3 h results in decreased BET surface area and CO2 adsorption ability. XPS spectra suggest a decreased content of metal nitrogen bonds in C Zn/Co ZIF, which leads to the formation of coordinatively unsaturated metal-nitrogen sites. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the coordinatively unsaturated CoN3V sites in C Zn/Co ZIF had the highest catalytic activity towards high-order organics. The total carbon atom conversion rate reaches 5459 nmol/h.cm(2) when 1h-C-Zn/Co ZIF is employed as catalyst in the CO2PRR system and the selectivity towards high-order solar fuel reaches 84%. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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