Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 12123
• Main Authors: Mistry, Hemma, Varela, Ana Sofia, Bonifacio, Cecile S., Zegkinoglou, Ioannis, Sinev, Ilya, Choi, Yong-Wook, Kisslinger, Kim, Stach, Eric A., Yang, Judith C., Strasser, Peter, Cuenya, Beatriz Roldan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 30.06.2016; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 140/146; 639/301/299/161; 639/638/440/94; 639/638/77/884; Absorption spectroscopy; Carbon dioxide; Catalysis; Center for Functional Nanomaterials; Copper; Electrochemistry; ethylene; Grain boundaries; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydrocarbons; INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Morphology; multidisciplinary; NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Physics; Plasma; plasma processing; Renewable energy; Scanning electron microscopy; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Transmission electron microscopy; United States > US

There is an urgent need to develop technologies that use renewable energy to convert waste products such as carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels. Carbon dioxide can be electrochemically reduced to hydrocarbons over copper catalysts, although higher efficiency is required. We have developed oxidized...