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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 138, 期 39, 页码 13006-13012出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b07612
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- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0004993]
- A*STAR
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [KK1601-A00] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
Electrolyte cation size is known to influence the electrochemical reduction of CO2 over metals; however, a satisfactory explanation for this phenomenon has not been developed. We report here that these effects can be attributed to a previously unrecognized consequence of cation hydrolysis occurring in the vicinity of the cathode. With increasing cation size, the pKa for cation hydrolysis decreases and is sufficiently low for hydrated K+, Rb+, and Cs+ to serve as buffering agents. Buffering lowers the pH near the cathode, leading to an increase in the local concentration of dissolved CO2. The consequences of these changes are an increase in cathode activity, a decrease in Faradaic efficiencies for H-2 and CH4, and an increase in Faradaic efficiencies for CO, C2H4, and C2H5OH, in full agreement with experimental observations for CO2 reduction over Ag and Cu.
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