Protecting Copper Oxidation State via Intermediate Confinement for Selective CO2 Electroreduction to C2+ Fuels

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 142; no. 13; pp. 6400 - 6408
• Main Authors: Yang, Peng-Peng, Zhang, Xiao-Long, Gao, Fei-Yue, Zheng, Ya-Rong, Niu, Zhuang-Zhuang, Yu, Xingxing, Liu, Ren, Wu, Zhi-Zheng, Qin, Shuai, Chi, Li-Ping, Duan, Yu, Ma, Tao, Zheng, Xu-Sheng, Zhu, Jun-Fa, Wang, Hui-Juan, Gao, Min-Rui, Yu, Shu-Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 01.04.2020
• Subjects: carbon; carbon dioxide; catalysts; catalytic activity; chemical bonding; copper; cuprous oxide; feedstocks; fuels; hydrocarbons; oxidation; Raman spectroscopy; renewable energy sources; value added; X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Selective and efficient catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added fuels and feedstocks provides an ideal avenue to high-density renewable energy storage. An impediment to enabling deep CO2 reduction to oxygenates and hydrocarbons (e.g., C2+ compounds) is the difficulty of couplin...