Attenuating metal-substrate conjugation in atomically dispersed nickel catalysts for electroreduction of CO2 to CO

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 6082 - 10
• Main Authors: Wang, Qiyou, Liu, Kang, Hu, Kangman, Cai, Chao, Li, Huangjingwei, Li, Hongmei, Herran, Matias, Lu, Ying-Rui, Chan, Ting-Shan, Ma, Chao, Fu, Junwei, Zhang, Shiguo, Liang, Ying, Cortés, Emiliano, Liu, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.10.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 140/146; 147/143; 639/301/299/886; 639/638/161/886; 639/638/675; 639/638/77/887; Attenuation; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide concentration; Carbon monoxide; Catalysts; Conjugation; Dispersion; Electrocatalysts; Electron density; Electrowinning; Heavy metals; Humanities and Social Sciences; Infrared reflection; Infrared spectroscopy; Metals; multidisciplinary; Nickel; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Single atom catalysts; Substrates; Transition metals

Atomically dispersed transition metals on carbon-based aromatic substrates are an emerging class of electrocatalysts for the electroreduction of CO 2 . However, electron delocalization of the metal site with the carbon support via d-π conjugation strongly hinders CO 2 activation at the active metal...