Promoting electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to formate via sulfur-boosting water activation on indium surfaces

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 892 - 10
• Main Authors: Ma, Wenchao, Xie, Shunji, Zhang, Xia-Guang, Sun, Fanfei, Kang, Jincan, Jiang, Zheng, Zhang, Qinghong, Wu, De-Yin, Wang, Ye
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.02.2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/301/299/886; 639/638/263/915; 639/638/77/887; Activation; Aqueous solutions; Carbon dioxide; Catalysis; Catalysts; Chemical reduction; Current density; Efficiency; Electrocatalysts; Fuels; Greenhouse gases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Indium; multidisciplinary; Organic chemistry; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sulfur

Electrocatalytic reduction of CO 2 to fuels and chemicals is one of the most attractive routes for CO 2 utilization. Current catalysts suffer from low faradaic efficiency of a CO 2 -reduction product at high current density (or reaction rate). Here, we report that a sulfur-doped indium catalyst exhi...