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Title: Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Carbon Monoxide over Defect-Rich Plasma-Activated Silver Catalysts

Journal Article · · Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
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  1. Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany). Dept. of Physics; Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany). Dept. of Physics
  3. Copenhagen Univ. (Denmark). Dept. of Chemistry
  4. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Physics
  5. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials
  6. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). Dept. of Chemistry
  7. Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany). Dept. of Physics; Fritz-Haber Inst. of the Max Planck Society, Berlin (Germany). Dept. of Interface Science

Efficient, stable catalysts with high selectivity for a single product are essential if electroreduction of CO2 is to become a viable route to the synthesis of industrial feedstocks and fuels. A plasma oxidation pre-treatment of silver foil enhances the number of low-coordinated catalytically active sites, which dramatically lowers the overpotential and increases the activity of CO2 electroreduction to CO. At -0.6 V versus RHE more than 90 % Faradaic efficiency towards CO was achieved on a pre-oxidized silver foil. While transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy showed that oxygen species can survive in the bulk of the catalyst during the reaction, quasi in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy showed that the surface is metallic under reaction conditions. Finally, DFT calculations reveal that the defect-rich surface of the plasma-oxidized silver foils in the presence of local electric fields drastically decrease the overpotential of CO2 electroreduction.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357; FG02-03ER15476; CHEM 1213182; CHE-1534630; 03SF0523C; ERC-725915; CF15-0165
OSTI ID:
1433976
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1374678
Report Number(s):
BNL-203511-2018-JAAM
Journal Information:
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), Vol. 56, Issue 38; ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher:
WileyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 158 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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