Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 5675-5680Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02321
Keywords
nanowires; nanoparticle catalyst; nanoparticle assembly; artificial photosynthesis; carbon dioxide reduction
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Suzhou Industrial Park Fellowship
- Samsung Scholarship
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Reducing carbon dioxide with a inulticomponent artificial photosynthetic system, closely mimicking nature, represents a promising approach for energy storage. Previous works have focused on exploiting light-harvesting semiconductor nanowires (NW) for photoelectrochemical water splitting. With the newly developed CO2 reduction nanoparticle (NP) catalysts, direct interfacing of these nanocatalysts with NW light absorbers for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 becomes feasible. Here, we demonstrate a directed assembly of NP catalysts on vertical NW substrates for CO2-to-CO conversion under illumination. Guided by the one-dimensional geometry, well-dispersed assembly of Au3Cu NPs On the surface of Si NW arrays was achieved with facile coverage tunability. Such Au3Cu NP decorated Si NW arrays can readily serve as effective CO2 reduction photoelectrodes, exhibiting high CO2-to-CO selectivity dose to 80% at 0.20 V vs RHE with suppressed hydrogen evolution. A reduction of 120 mV overpotential compared to the planar (PL) counterpart was observed resulting, from the optimized spatial arrangement of NP catalysts; on the high surface area NW arrays. In addition, this system showed consistent photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction capability up to 18 11: This;simple photoelectrode assembly process will lead to further progress in artificial photosynthesis, by allowing the combination of developments in each subfield to create an efficient light-driven system generating carbon-based fuels.
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