Beyond Copper in CO2 Electrolysis: Effective Hydrocarbon Production on Silver-Nanofoam Catalysts
Beyond Copper in CO2 Electrolysis: Effective Hydrocarbon Production on Silver-Nanofoam Catalysts
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DOI:
10.1021/acscatal.8b01738
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发表时间:
2018-09-01
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12.9
通讯作者:
Broekmann, Peter
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作者:
Dutta, Abhijit;Morstein, Carina Elisabeth;Broekmann, Peter
Ag-foam catalysts have been developed for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (ec-CO2RR) based on a concerted additive- and template-assisted metal-deposition process. In aqueous media (CO2-saturated 0.5 M KHCO3 electrolyte), these Ag foams show high activity and selectivity toward CO production at low and moderate over-Potentials. Faradaic efficiencies for CO (FECO) never fell below 90% within an extremely broad potential window of similar to 900 mV, starting at -0.3 V and reaching up to -1.2 V versus a reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). An increased adsorption energy of CO on the Ag foam is discussed as the origin of the efficient suppression of the competing hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER) in this potential range. At potentials of