Surface Ligand Promotion of Carbon Dioxide Reduction through Stabilizing Chemisorbed Reactive Intermediates

Wang, Zhijiang; Wu, Lina; Sun, Kun; Chen, Ting; Jiang, Zhaohua; Cheng, Tao; Goddard, III, William A.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00959

Title: Surface Ligand Promotion of Carbon Dioxide Reduction through Stabilizing Chemisorbed Reactive Intermediates

Journal Article · 22 May 2018 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00959 · OSTI ID:1467603

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Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
Harbin Medical Univ. (China)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

We have explored functionalizing metal catalysts with surface ligands as an approach to facilitate electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO₂RR). To provide a molecular level understanding of the mechanism by which this enhancement occurs, we combine in situ spectroscopy analysis with an interpretation based on quantum mechanics (QM) calculations. We find that a surface ligand can play a critical role in stabilizing the chemisorbed CO₂, which facilitates CO₂ activation and leads to a 0.3 V decrease in the overpotential for carbon monoxide (CO) formation. Moreover, the presence of the surface ligand leads to nearly exclusive CO production. At -0.6 V (versus reversible hydrogen electrode, RHE), CO is the only significant product with a faradic efficiency of 93% and a current density of 1.9 mA cm^–2. This improvement corresponds to 53-fold enhancement in turnover frequency compared with the Ag nanoparticles (NPs) without surface ligands.

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Research Organization:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0004993

OSTI ID:: 1467603

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 11; ISSN 1948-7185

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