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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 14, Pages 5457-5463Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01334
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1764310]
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The presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) near the surface of a Cu electrode promotes the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to fuels. CTAB increases the CO2 reduction rate by as much as 10x and decreased the HER rate by 4x, leading to similar to 75% selectivity toward the reduction of CO2. Surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) was used to probe the effects of CTAB adsorption on the structure of interfacial water and CO2 reduction intermediates. HER suppression was found to arise from the displacement of interfacial water molecules from CTAB adsorption within the double layer. The enhanced CO2 reduction rate can be correlated to an increased population of atop-bound CO and the emergence of a low frequency atop-CO band. These results unravel the role of additives in improving CO2-to-fuels electrocatalysis and establishing this as a powerful methodology for directing product selectivity.
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