High‐Curvature Transition‐Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures with a Pronounced Proximity Effect Enable Fast and Selective CO2 Electroreduction

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 59; no. 22; pp. 8706 - 8712
• Main Authors: Gao, Fei‐Yue, Hu, Shao‐Jin, Zhang, Xiao‐Long, Zheng, Ya‐Rong, Wang, Hui‐Juan, Niu, Zhuang‐Zhuang, Yang, Peng‐Peng, Bao, Rui‐Cheng, Ma, Tao, Dang, Zheng, Guan, Yong, Zheng, Xu‐Sheng, Zheng, Xiao, Zhu, Jun‐Fa, Gao, Min‐Rui, Yu, Shu‐Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 25.05.2020
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Additives; Alkali metals; Cadmium; Cadmium sulfide; Carbon dioxide; Carbon monoxide; Catalysts; Cations; Chalcogenides; CO2 electroreduction; Computer applications; Curvature; Electric fields; Electrowinning; flow cells; high-curvature structures; Intermediates; Ionic liquids; Ions; Metal ions; Metals; Nanostructure; proximity effect; Proximity effect (electricity)

A considerable challenge in the conversion of carbon dioxide into useful fuels comes from the activation of CO2 to CO2.− or other intermediates, which often requires precious‐metal catalysts, high overpotentials, and/or electrolyte additives (e.g., ionic liquids). We report a microwave heating strat...