Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 47, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa8f6f
Keywords
electrochemical CO2 reduction; metal-free; N-doping; carbon-based materials
Funding
- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites [oic-201503005]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [buctrc201525]
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences [BNLMS20160133]
- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, TIPC, CAS
- Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) offers an important pathway for renewable energy storage and fuels production. It still remains a challenge in designing highly selective, energy-efficient, robust, and cost-effective electrocatalysts to facilitate this kinetically slow process. Metal-free carbon-based materials have features of low cost, good electrical conductivity, renewability, diverse structure, and tunability in surface chemistry. In particular, surface functionalization of carbon materials, for example by doping with heteroatoms, enables access to unique active site architectures for CO2 adsorption and activation, leading to interesting catalytic performances in ECR. We aim to provide a comprehensive review of this category of metal-free catalysts for ECR, providing discussions and/or comparisons among different nonmetallic catalysts, and also possible origin of catalytic activity. Fundamentals and some future challenges are also described.
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