A Highly Active Star Decahedron Cu Nanocatalyst for Hydrocarbon Production at Low Overpotentials
Abstract
Abstract The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) presents a viable approach to recycle CO 2 gas into low carbon fuels. Thus, the development of highly active catalysts at low overpotential is desired for this reaction. Herein, a high‐yield synthesis of unique star decahedron Cu nanoparticles (SD‐Cu NPs) electrocatalysts, displaying twin boundaries (TBs) and multiple stacking faults, which lead to low overpotentials for methane (CH 4 ) and high efficiency for ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) production, is reported. Particularly, SD‐Cu NPs show an onset potential for CH 4 production lower by 0.149 V than commercial Cu NPs. More impressively, SD‐Cu NPs demonstrate a faradaic efficiency of 52.43% ± 2.72% for C 2 H 4 production at −0.993 ± 0.0129 V. The results demonstrate that the surface stacking faults and twin defects increase CO binding energy, leading to the enhanced CO 2 RR performance on SD‐Cu NPs.
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
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- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1610774
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1486891
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0004993; DE‐SC0004993
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 31; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Chemistry; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Materials Science; Physics
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Choi, Chungseok, Cheng, Tao, Flores Espinosa, Michelle, Fei, Huilong, Duan, Xiangfeng, Goddard, William A., and Huang, Yu. A Highly Active Star Decahedron Cu Nanocatalyst for Hydrocarbon Production at Low Overpotentials. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201805405.
Choi, Chungseok, Cheng, Tao, Flores Espinosa, Michelle, Fei, Huilong, Duan, Xiangfeng, Goddard, William A., & Huang, Yu. A Highly Active Star Decahedron Cu Nanocatalyst for Hydrocarbon Production at Low Overpotentials. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805405
Choi, Chungseok, Cheng, Tao, Flores Espinosa, Michelle, Fei, Huilong, Duan, Xiangfeng, Goddard, William A., and Huang, Yu. Fri .
"A Highly Active Star Decahedron Cu Nanocatalyst for Hydrocarbon Production at Low Overpotentials". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805405. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1610774.
@article{osti_1610774,
title = {A Highly Active Star Decahedron Cu Nanocatalyst for Hydrocarbon Production at Low Overpotentials},
author = {Choi, Chungseok and Cheng, Tao and Flores Espinosa, Michelle and Fei, Huilong and Duan, Xiangfeng and Goddard, William A. and Huang, Yu},
abstractNote = {Abstract The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) presents a viable approach to recycle CO 2 gas into low carbon fuels. Thus, the development of highly active catalysts at low overpotential is desired for this reaction. Herein, a high‐yield synthesis of unique star decahedron Cu nanoparticles (SD‐Cu NPs) electrocatalysts, displaying twin boundaries (TBs) and multiple stacking faults, which lead to low overpotentials for methane (CH 4 ) and high efficiency for ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) production, is reported. Particularly, SD‐Cu NPs show an onset potential for CH 4 production lower by 0.149 V than commercial Cu NPs. More impressively, SD‐Cu NPs demonstrate a faradaic efficiency of 52.43% ± 2.72% for C 2 H 4 production at −0.993 ± 0.0129 V. The results demonstrate that the surface stacking faults and twin defects increase CO binding energy, leading to the enhanced CO 2 RR performance on SD‐Cu NPs.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201805405},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 6,
volume = 31,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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