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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 1466-1470Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00367
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the MURI program under AFOSR Award [FA9550-10-1-0572]
- Global Climate Energy Project at Stanford University
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Nanostructured copper cathodes are among the most efficient and selective catalysts to date for making multicarbon products from the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR). We report an in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigation of the formation of a copper nanocube CO2RR catalyst with high activity that highly favors ethylene over methane production. The results show that the precursor for the copper nanocube formation is copper(I)-oxide, not copper(I)-chloride as previously assumed. A second route to an electrochemically similar material via a copper(II)-carbonate/hydroxide is also reported. This study highlights the importance of using oxidized copper precursors for constructing selective CO2 reduction catalysts and shows the precursor oxidation state does not affect the electrocatalyst selectivity toward ethylene formation.
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