Active sites of copper-complex catalytic materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 415 - 9
• Main Authors: Weng, Zhe, Wu, Yueshen, Wang, Maoyu, Jiang, Jianbing, Yang, Ke, Huo, Shengjuan, Wang, Xiao-Feng, Ma, Qing, Brudvig, Gary W., Batista, Victor S., Liang, Yongye, Feng, Zhenxing, Wang, Hailiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.01.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 147/135; 639/301/299/886; 639/638/298; 639/638/77/886; Absorption spectroscopy; Carbon dioxide; Catalysis; Catalysts; Catalytic activity; Catalytic converters; Clusters; Conversion; Coordination compounds; Copper; Copper compounds; Copper converters; Electrochemistry; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydrogen storage; INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS SCIENCE; Metal ions; Metal phthalocyanines; Methane; Molecular structure; multidisciplinary; Nanoclusters; Oxidation; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Valence; Working conditions; X ray absorption; X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Restructuring-induced catalytic activity is an intriguing phenomenon of fundamental importance to rational design of high-performance catalyst materials. We study three copper-complex materials for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction. Among them, the copper(II) phthalocyanine exhibits by far t...