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卷 11, 期 25, 页码 12075-12079出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9nr03170g
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- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [57114-ND5]
- Center for the Capture and Conversion of CO2 - National Science Foundation [CHE-1240020]
We prepared micrometer long Cu nanowires (NWs) of 25 and 50 nm diameters and studied their electrocatalysis for electrochemical reduction of CO/CO2 in 0.1 M KHCO3 at room temperature. The 50 nm NWs showed better selectivity than the 25 nm NWs, and catalyzed CO reduction to C-2-hydrocarbons (C2H4 + C2H6) with a combined faradaic efficiency (FE) of 60% (C2H4 FE of 35% and mass activity of 4.25 A g(-1) Cu) at -1.1 V (vs. reversible hydrogen electrode). The NW-catalyzed CO2 reduction is less efficient due to the extra CO2 to CO step required for the formation of C-2-hydrocarbons. This experimental evidence combined with DFT calculations suggests that CO is an important intermediate and NWs provide a large Cu(100) surface for *CO hydrogenation (to *CHO) and *CO-*CHO coupling, leading to more selective reduction of CO than CO2 towards C-2-hydrocarbons.
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