Selective CO2 Reduction to CO in Water using Earth-Abundant Metal and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts

By Xin‐Ming Hu, Halvor Høen Hval, E. Bjerglund, K. J. Dalgaard, Monica R. Madsen, M. Pohl, E. Welter, Paolo Lamagni, Kristian B. Buhl, M. Bremholm and 4 more. ACS Catalysis, 2018

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Earth-abundant transition metal (Fe, Co, or Ni) and nitrogen-doped porous carbon electrocatalysts (M-N-C, where M denotes the metal) were synthesized from cheap precursors via silica-templated pyrolysis. The effect of the material composition and structure (i.e., porosity, nitrogen doping, metal identity, and oxygen functionalization) on the activity for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) was investigated. The metal-free N-C exhibits a high selectivity but low activity for CO2RR. Incorporation of the Fe and Ni, but not Co, sites in the N-C material is able to significantly enhance the activity. The general selectivity order for CO2-to-CO conversion in water is found to be Ni > Fe ≫ Co with respect to the metal in M-N-C, while the activity follows Ni, Fe ≫ Co. Notably, the Ni-doped carbon exhibits a high selectivity with a faradaic efficiency of 93% for CO production. Tafel analysis shows a change of the rate-determining step as the metal overtakes the role of the nitrogen as the most activ...

Subfields: Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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