Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 298, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120519
Keywords
Photothermal catalysis; CO2 reduction; MOF precursor; Ga-Cu/CeO2; Highly dispersed
Funding
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP18H02065]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21633004]
- Photo-excitonix Project in Hokkaido University
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Synthesis of Ga-Cu/CeO2 catalyst by direct pyrolysis of Ga and Cu-containing Ce-metal-organic frameworks enables efficient photothermal catalytic CO2 hydrogenation, with optimized catalyst 10Cu5Ga/CeO2 showing superior CO production rate and selectivity. Synergy of photothermal heating/conversion and light-promotion significantly enhances CO production.
Photothermal catalytic CO2 reduction is an attractive process to efficiently convert solar energy into chemical energy with mitigation of global carbon emissions, but it remains a great challenge in achieving high conversion efficiency due to the limited sunlight capturing capacity and lack of highly efficient catalysts. Herein, we report a Ga-Cu/CeO2 catalyst synthesized by direct pyrolysis of the Ga and Cu-containing Ce-metal-organic frameworks for efficient photothermal catalytic CO2 hydrogenation. Because of the highly dispersed Ga and Cu species in CeO2, the optimized catalyst 10Cu5Ga/CeO2 (10 wt% Cu and 5 wt% Ga) achieved a CO production rate of 111.2 mmol g(-1) h(-1) with nearly 100 % selectivity under full solar spectrum irradiation, which is superior to most reported Cu and other earth-abundant metals-based photothermal catalysts. Mechanism studies demonstrated that the synergy of photothermal heating/conversion and light-promotion contributed to the substantially increased CO production. In situ DRIFTS results revealed that the introduction of Ga enhanced the formation of formate species, the key intermediates in CO2 hydrogenation, and light irradiation facilitated the decomposition of formate species to carbonyl, thus enhancing CO production. This work provides a potential strategy towards the synthesis of efficient catalysts for photothermal CO2 reduction.
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