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Electrodeposited highly-oriented bismuth microparticles for efficient CO2 electroreduction into formate

Chen LinYan LiuXiangdong KongZhigang Geng( )Jie Zeng( )
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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While Bi microparticles (MP) possess lower specific surface area than Bi nanoflakes (NF), Bi MP exhibited better catalytic performance. The different exposed surfaces lead to such results.

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Bi is one of the most fascinating catalysts for the formation of HCOO towards CO2 electroreduction. Herein, we developed electrodeposited angular-shaped Bi microparticles (Bi MP) with exposed surfaces of {003} and {101} planes as efficient catalyst for the electroreduction of CO2 into HCOO. During CO2 electroreduction, Bi MP achieved a Faraday efficiency (FE) for HCOO of higher than 95% over a wide range of applied potential from −0.6 to −1.1 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (vs. RHE), whereas the FE for HCOO of Bi nanoflakes (Bi NF) with exposed surfaces of {104} and {110} planes was around 70%. At −1.1 V vs. RHE, the partial current density for HCOO of Bi MP was −271.7 mA·cm−2, 1.56 times as high as that of Bi NF. According to kinetic analysis and mechanistic study, highly-oriented surface of Bi MP not only facilitated Faradaic process and accelerated reaction kinetics via enhancing the CO2 activation, but also restrained competing hydrogen evolution reaction, thus boosting catalytic performance of the electroreduction of CO2 into HCOO.

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Lin C, Liu Y, Kong X, et al. Electrodeposited highly-oriented bismuth microparticles for efficient CO2 electroreduction into formate. Nano Research, 2022, 15(12): 10078-10083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4345-z
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Received: 13 February 2022
Revised: 19 March 2022
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Published: 26 April 2022
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