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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 143, 期 18, 页码 6855-6864出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c12418
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21978110, 51772126]
- 13th five-year Science and Technology Project of Jilin Provincial Education Department [JJKH20200407KJ]
- Jilin Province Science and Technology Department Program [20200201187JC, 20200801040GH, 20190101009JH]
- Jilin Province Development and Reform Commission Program [2020C026-3]
This study presents a two ships in a bottle design for ternary Zn-Ag-O catalysts, with bimetallic electron configurations modulated by constructing a Zn-Ag-O interface. This design enhances CO selectivity, suppresses HCOOH generation, and achieves high energy efficiency, high CO Faradaic efficiency, and remarkable stability.
Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) using renewable energy sources represents a sustainable means of producing carbon-neutral fuels. Unfortunately, low energy efficiency, poor product selectivity, and rapid deactivation are among the most intractable challenges of CO2RR electrocatalysts. Here, we strategically propose a two ships in a bottle design for ternary Zn-Ag-O catalysts, where ZnO and Ag phases are twinned to constitute an individual ultrafine nanoparticle impregnated inside nanopores of an ultrahigh-surface-area carbon matrix. Bimetallic electron configurations are modulated by constructing a Zn-Ag-O interface, where the electron density reconfiguration arising from electron delocalization enhances the stabilization of the *COOH intermediate favorable for CO production, while promoting CO selectivity and suppressing HCOOH generation by altering the rate-limiting step toward a high thermodynamic barrier for forming HCOO*. Moreover, the pore-constriction mechanism restricts the bimetallic particles to nanosized dimensions with abundant Zn-Ag-O heterointerfaces and exposed active sites, meanwhile prohibiting detachment and agglomeration of nanoparticles during CO2 RR for enhanced stability. The designed catalysts realize 60.9% energy efficiency and 94.1 +/- 4.0% Faradaic efficiency toward CO, together with a remarkable stability over 6 days. Beyond providing a high-performance CO2RR electrocatalyst, this work presents a promising catalyst-design strategy for efficient energy conversion.
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