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Isolated single atom cobalt in Bi3O4Br atomic layers to trigger efficient CO2 photoreduction.

Jun DiChao ChenShi-Ze YangShuangming ChenMeilin DuanJun XiongChao ZhuRan LongWei HaoZhen ChiHailong ChenYu-Xiang WengJiexiang XiaLi SongShuZhou LiHuaming LiZheng Liu
Published in: Nature communications (2019)
The design of efficient and stable photocatalysts for robust CO2 reduction without sacrifice reagent or extra photosensitizer is still challenging. Herein, a single-atom catalyst of isolated single atom cobalt incorporated into Bi3O4Br atomic layers is successfully prepared. The cobalt single atoms in the Bi3O4Br favors the charge transition, carrier separation, CO2 adsorption and activation. It can lower the CO2 activation energy barrier through stabilizing the COOH* intermediates and tune the rate-limiting step from the formation of adsorbed intermediate COOH* to be CO* desorption. Taking advantage of cobalt single atoms and two-dimensional ultrathin Bi3O4Br atomic layers, the optimized catalyst can perform light-driven CO2 reduction with a selective CO formation rate of 107.1 µmol g-1 h-1, roughly 4 and 32 times higher than that of atomic layer Bi3O4Br and bulk Bi3O4Br, respectively.
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