Metal-Organic Framework Supported Low-Nuclearity Cluster Catalysts for Highly Selective Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Ethanol.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; : e202409270, 2024 Jun 16.
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ABSTRACT
It is still a great challenge to achieve high selectivity of ethanol in CO2 electroreduction reactions (CO2RR) because of the similar reduction potentials and lower energy barrier of possible other C2+ products. Here, we report a MOF-based supported low-nuclearity cluster catalysts (LNCCs), synthesized by electrochemical reduction of three-dimensional (3D) microporous Cu-based MOF, that achieves a single-product Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 82.5 % at -1.0â
V (versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) corresponding to the effective current density is 8.66â
mA cm-2. By investigating the relationship between the species of reduction products and the types of catalytic sites, it is confirmed that the multi-site synergism of Cu LNCCs can increase the C-C coupling effect, and thus achieve high FE of CO2-to-ethanol. In addition, density functional theory (DFT) calculation and operando attenuated total reflectance surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy further confirmed the reaction path and mechanism of CO2-to-EtOH.
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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
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