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ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 68, Issue -, Pages 67-70Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2016.05.003
Keywords
Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide; Zinc oxide; Nanoporous structure; In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2013CB933100, 2012CB215500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21573222, 91545202]
- CAS Youth Innovation Promotion
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Nanoporous zinc oxide (ZnO) is prepared by a hydrothermal method followed by thermal decomposition for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy results indicate that ZnO is reduced to Zn under the electrolysis conditions for catalyzing CO2 electroreduction. The reduced nanoporous ZnO exhibits obviously higher CO Faradaic efficiency and current density than commercial Zn foil with a maximum CO Faradaic efficiency of 92.0%, suggesting that the nanoporous structure facilitates electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 over reduced nanoporous ZnO, probably due to increased surface area and more coordination unsaturated surface atoms. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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