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NATURE CATALYSIS
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 478-487Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-0450-0
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- National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2017YFB0602201]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21690082, 91545203, 21503176, 21802110]
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Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 into multicarbon (C2+) products is a highly attractive route for CO2 utilization; however, the yield of C2+ products remains low because of the limited C2+ selectivity at high CO2 conversion rates. Here we report a fluorine-modified copper catalyst that exhibits an ultrahigh current density of 1.6 A cm(-2) with a C2+ (mainly ethylene and ethanol) Faradaic efficiency of 80% for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction in a flow cell. The C2-4 selectivity reaches 85.8% at a single-pass yield of 16.5%. We show a hydrogen-assisted C-C coupling mechanism between adsorbed CHO intermediates for C2+ formation. Fluorine enhances water activation, CO adsorption and hydrogenation of adsorbed CO to CHO intermediate that can readily undergo coupling. Our findings offer an opportunity to design highly active and selective CO2 electroreduction catalysts with potential for practical application.
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