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Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas with a wide range of CO/H2 ratio over Ni/Fe binary single-atom catalysts

Meng Zhang1,§, Zheng Hu1,§, Lin Gu3, Qinghua Zhang3, Linghui Zhang1, Qian Song1, Wei Zhou1, Shi Hu1,2()
Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230000, China
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

§ Meng Zhang and Zheng Hu contributed equally to this work.

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A series of carbon-based binary single-atom catalysts of Fe and Ni coordinated by nitrogen are fabricated using a glucose-chelating method. Depending on the Ni/Fe content, they exhibit a wide-range of controllable CO/H2 ratio from 0.14 to 10.86, which is meaningful to specific chemical processes. The durability of the catalyst is evaluated over an 8-hour period with no significant degradation of activity. The variation of the faradaic efficiency with Ni/Fe content is justified by density-functional-theory based calculation of the reaction barrier in both hydrogen evolution and CO2 reduction reactions.

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CO2 reductionsyngasbinary single-atom catalystelectrocatalysis

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Nano Research
Volume 13 Issue 12,
December 2020
Pages 3206-3211
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2988-1
Cite this article:
Zhang M, Hu Z, Gu L, et al. Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas with a wide range of CO/H2 ratio over Ni/Fe binary single-atom catalysts. Nano Research, 2020, 13(12): 3206-3211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2988-1
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