Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to HCOOH over Copper Catalysts.
Wei-Bo HuJiejie LiLushan MaWanyu SuYanping ZhuWenhao LiYubin ChenLiangliang ZouZhiqing ZouBo YangKe WenHui YangPublished in: ACS applied materials & interfaces (2021)
Although great progress has been made in the field of electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR), inducing product selectivity is still difficult. We herein report that a thiocyanate ion (SCN-) switched the product selectivity of copper catalysts for eCO2RR in an H-cell. A cuprous thiocyanate-derived Cu catalyst was found to exhibit excellent HCOOH selectivity (faradaic efficiency = 70-88%) over a wide potential range (-0.66 to -0.95 V vs RHE). Furthermore, it was revealed that the formation of CO and C2H4 over commercial copper electrodes could be dramatically suppressed with the presence of SCN-, switching to HCOOH. Density functional theory calculations disclosed that SCN- made the formation of HCOO* easier than COOH* on Cu (211), facilitating the HCOOH generation. Our results provide a new insight into eCO2RR and will be helpful in the development of cheap electrocatalysts for specific utilization.
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