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Title: Isolated Ni single atoms in graphene nanosheets for high-performance CO2 reduction

Abstract

High-performance electrocatalytic CO2reduction to CO using Ni single-atom catalyst in an anion membrane electrode assembly.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [1];  [5];  [5]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  3. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
  4. Univ. of Saskatchewan; Saskatoon (Canada)
  5. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1460822
Report Number(s):
BNL-207853-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692; EESNBY
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Energy & Environmental Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Jiang, Kun, Siahrostami, Samira, Zheng, Tingting, Hu, Yongfeng, Hwang, Sooyeon, Stavitski, Eli, Peng, Yande, Dynes, James, Gangisetty, Mehash, Su, Dong, Attenkofer, Klaus, and Wang, Haotian. Isolated Ni single atoms in graphene nanosheets for high-performance CO2 reduction. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1039/C7EE03245E.
Jiang, Kun, Siahrostami, Samira, Zheng, Tingting, Hu, Yongfeng, Hwang, Sooyeon, Stavitski, Eli, Peng, Yande, Dynes, James, Gangisetty, Mehash, Su, Dong, Attenkofer, Klaus, & Wang, Haotian. Isolated Ni single atoms in graphene nanosheets for high-performance CO2 reduction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7EE03245E
Jiang, Kun, Siahrostami, Samira, Zheng, Tingting, Hu, Yongfeng, Hwang, Sooyeon, Stavitski, Eli, Peng, Yande, Dynes, James, Gangisetty, Mehash, Su, Dong, Attenkofer, Klaus, and Wang, Haotian. Thu . "Isolated Ni single atoms in graphene nanosheets for high-performance CO2 reduction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7EE03245E. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1460822.
@article{osti_1460822,
title = {Isolated Ni single atoms in graphene nanosheets for high-performance CO2 reduction},
author = {Jiang, Kun and Siahrostami, Samira and Zheng, Tingting and Hu, Yongfeng and Hwang, Sooyeon and Stavitski, Eli and Peng, Yande and Dynes, James and Gangisetty, Mehash and Su, Dong and Attenkofer, Klaus and Wang, Haotian},
abstractNote = {High-performance electrocatalytic CO2reduction to CO using Ni single-atom catalyst in an anion membrane electrode assembly.},
doi = {10.1039/C7EE03245E},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Science},
number = 4,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Morphology and composition characterization of Ni–NG. (A) TEM image of a Ni–NG nanosheet. No Ni NPs were observed. (B) Aberrationcorrected HAADF-STEM image of a Ni–NG nanosheet. The uniformly distributed bright dots represent Ni atoms due to the high mass compared to C or N. (C) A zoom-in STEMmore » image of Ni–NG. Isolated Ni single atoms (brighter dots) were observed, and a few representatives were indicated by red circles. (D) Elemental mapping of a Ni–NG nanosheet confirming the co-existence of C, N, and Ni atoms.« less

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Steering CO 2 electroreduction toward ethanol production by a surface-bound Ru polypyridyl carbene catalyst on N-doped porous carbon
journal, December 2019

  • Liu, Yanming; Fan, Xinfei; Nayak, Animesh
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116, Issue 52
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907740116

Fixation of CO 2 along with bromopyridines on a silver electrode
journal, August 2018

  • Zhang, Yingtian; Yu, Shuxian; Luo, Peipei
  • Royal Society Open Science, Vol. 5, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180897

Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction into Chemical Feedstocks: From Mechanistic Electrocatalysis Models to System Design
journal, December 2018

  • Kibria, Md Golam; Edwards, Jonathan P.; Gabardo, Christine M.
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 31
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201807166

Confinement Catalysis with 2D Materials for Energy Conversion
journal, July 2019


Multifunctional Transition Metal‐Based Phosphides in Energy‐Related Electrocatalysis
journal, September 2019

  • Li, Yang; Dong, Zihao; Jiao, Lifang
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201902104

Double Perovskite LaFe x Ni 1− x O 3 Nanorods Enable Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis
journal, January 2019


Aqueous CO 2 Reduction with High Efficiency Using α‐Co(OH) 2 ‐Supported Atomic Ir Electrocatalysts
journal, February 2019


Double Perovskite LaFe x Ni 1− x O 3 Nanorods Enable Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis
journal, January 2019

  • Wang, Huaping; Wang, Juan; Pi, Yecan
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 58, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201812545

Isolated Diatomic Ni-Fe Metal-Nitrogen Sites for Synergistic Electroreduction of CO 2
journal, April 2019

  • Ren, Wenhao; Tan, Xin; Yang, Wanfeng
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 58, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901575

Elucidating the Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction Reaction over a Model Single‐Atom Nickel Catalyst
journal, January 2020

  • Liu, Song; Yang, Hong Bin; Hung, Sung‐Fu
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 59, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911995

Understanding the Origin of Highly Selective CO 2 Electroreduction to CO on Ni,N‐doped Carbon Catalysts
journal, January 2020

  • Koshy, David M.; Chen, Shucheng; Lee, Dong Un
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 59, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201912857

Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Splitting
journal, February 2019


Progress in development of electrocatalyst for CO 2 conversion to selective CO production
journal, March 2020

  • Nguyen, Dang Le Tri; Kim, Younghye; Hwang, Yun Jeong
  • Carbon Energy, Vol. 2, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/cey2.27

Single Atoms on Graphene for Energy Storage and Conversion
journal, April 2019


3D Hierarchical Porous Graphene-Based Energy Materials: Synthesis, Functionalization, and Application in Energy Storage and Conversion
journal, March 2019


Highly selective oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide on transition metal single atom coordination
journal, September 2019


A universal ligand mediated method for large scale synthesis of transition metal single atom catalysts
journal, October 2019


Designing materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide recycling
journal, July 2019


Metal-based heterogeneous electrocatalysts for reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrogen: mechanisms, recent advances and perspective
journal, January 2018

  • Zhou, Jun-Hao; Zhang, Ya-Wen
  • Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8re00111a

Single Sb sites for efficient electrochemical CO 2 reduction
journal, January 2019

  • Jia, Mingwen; Hong, Song; Wu, Tai-Sing
  • Chemical Communications, Vol. 55, Issue 80
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9cc06178a

Poly-phenylenediamine-derived atomically dispersed Ni sites for the electroreduction of CO 2 to CO
journal, January 2019

  • Zheng, Yonglong; Han, Jianyu; Takele, Leta
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Vol. 6, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9qi00297a

Current progress of metallic and carbon-based nanostructure catalysts towards the electrochemical reduction of CO 2
journal, January 2019

  • Hou, Liang; Yan, Jingze; Takele, Leta
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Vol. 6, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9qi00484j

Partial sulfuration-induced defect and interface tailoring on bismuth oxide for promoting electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction
journal, January 2020

  • Yang, Xuxiao; Deng, Peilin; Liu, Dongyu
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 8, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta11363k

Heterogeneous catalysts for catalytic CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals
journal, March 2019


Deactivating Defects in Graphenes with Al 2 O 3 Nanoclusters to Produce Long-Life and High-Rate Sodium-Ion Batteries
journal, November 2018

  • Lin, Qiaowei; Zhang, Jun; Kong, Debin
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201803078

Non‐metal Single‐Iodine‐Atom Electrocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
journal, July 2019

  • Zhao, Yongqiang; Ling, Tao; Chen, Shuangming
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 131, Issue 35
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201905554

Electrocatalytic Water Splitting and CO 2 Reduction: Sustainable Solutions via Single‐Atom Catalysts Supported on 2D Materials
journal, February 2019


Carbon monoxide electroreduction as an emerging platform for carbon utilization
journal, December 2019


Novel folic acid complex derived nitrogen and nickel co-doped carbon nanotubes with embedded Ni nanoparticles as efficient electrocatalysts for CO 2 reduction
journal, January 2020

  • Wang, Xuewan; Wu, Dan; Dai, Chengzhi
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 8, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta12238a

Current progress in electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction to fuels on heterogeneous catalysts
journal, January 2020

  • Liu, Anmin; Gao, Mengfan; Ren, Xuefeng
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 8, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta11966c

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to CO Catalyzed by 2D Nanostructures
journal, January 2020

  • Hiragond, Chaitanya B.; Kim, Hwapyong; Lee, Junho
  • Catalysts, Vol. 10, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3390/catal10010098

In Situ Thermal Atomization To Convert Supported Nickel Nanoparticles into Surface-Bound Nickel Single-Atom Catalysts
journal, October 2018

  • Yang, Jian; Qiu, Zongyang; Zhao, Changming
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 130, Issue 43
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201808049

Inside Cover: Electrochemical Conversion of CO 2 to Syngas with Controllable CO/H 2 Ratios over Co and Ni Single‐Atom Catalysts (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2020)
journal, February 2020

  • He, Qun; Liu, Daobin; Lee, Ji Hoon
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 59, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000296

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