TY - JOUR
T1 - Large-Scale and Highly Selective CO 2 Electrocatalytic Reduction on Nickel Single-Atom Catalyst
AU - Zheng, Tingting
AU - Jiang, Kun
AU - Ta, Na
AU - Hu, Yongfeng
AU - Zeng, Jie
AU - Liu, Jingyue
AU - Wang, Haotian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/1/16
Y1 - 2019/1/16
N2 - The scaling up of electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction for practical applications is still hindered by a few challenges: low selectivity, small current density to maintain a reasonable selectivity, and the cost of the catalytic materials. Here we report a facile synthesis of earth-abundant Ni single-atom catalysts on commercial carbon black, which were further employed in a gas-phase electrocatalytic reactor under ambient conditions. As a result, those single-atomic sites exhibit an extraordinary performance in reducing CO 2 to CO, yielding a current density above 100 mA cm −2 , with nearly 100% selectivity for CO and around 1% toward the hydrogen evolution side reaction. By further scaling up the electrode into a 10 × 10-cm 2 modular cell, the overall current in one unit cell can easily ramp up to more than 8 A while maintaining an exclusive CO evolution with a generation rate of 3.34 L hr −1 per unit cell.
AB - The scaling up of electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction for practical applications is still hindered by a few challenges: low selectivity, small current density to maintain a reasonable selectivity, and the cost of the catalytic materials. Here we report a facile synthesis of earth-abundant Ni single-atom catalysts on commercial carbon black, which were further employed in a gas-phase electrocatalytic reactor under ambient conditions. As a result, those single-atomic sites exhibit an extraordinary performance in reducing CO 2 to CO, yielding a current density above 100 mA cm −2 , with nearly 100% selectivity for CO and around 1% toward the hydrogen evolution side reaction. By further scaling up the electrode into a 10 × 10-cm 2 modular cell, the overall current in one unit cell can easily ramp up to more than 8 A while maintaining an exclusive CO evolution with a generation rate of 3.34 L hr −1 per unit cell.
KW - CO evolution
KW - CO reduction
KW - MEA
KW - membrane electrode assembly
KW - practical CO electrolysis
KW - scaling up CO reduction
KW - single-atom catalyst
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U2 - 10.1016/j.joule.2018.10.015
DO - 10.1016/j.joule.2018.10.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060006685
SN - 2542-4351
VL - 3
SP - 265
EP - 278
JO - Joule
JF - Joule
IS - 1
ER -