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APPLIED CATALYSIS A-GENERAL
Volume 606, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2020.117829
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CO(2)electro-reduction; C2+ products; Tandem catalysis; Copper oxide/zinc oxide
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- Office of Research Collaborative Grants (Track 1-PILOT Program from the University of Cincinnati)
- United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF)
- J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB), USA
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The comprehensive application of electrochemical CO2 conversion to multi-carbon hydrocarbons and oxygenates is limited by the low selectivity and activity of copper-derived catalysts. Here, we report co-precipitated CuO/ZnO/C catalysts directing cascade catalysis to enhance the yield of the C2+ products. The reduced ZnO nanoparticles supply extra CO to increase the *CO surface coverage on the reduced CuO nanoparticles, which boosts the C-C coupling reaction kinetics on the reduced CuO surface. The geometric arrangement and composition of phase-separated CuO and ZnO nanoparticles are two vital factors influencing the CO utilization efficiency. The optimum CuO/ZnO/C catalyst exhibits a maximum Faradic efficiency of 74.0 % for overall C2+ products and 50.9 % for C2H4 at -0.75 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode, at which the total current density reaches 367 mA cm(-2).
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