题目：

A Co₃O₄-CDots-C₃N₄ Three Component Electrocatalyst Design Concept for Efficient and Tunable CO₂ Reduction to Syngas

作者：

Sijie Guo¹, Siqi Zhao¹, Xiuqin Wu¹, Hao Li¹, Yunjie Zhou¹, Cheng Zhu¹, Nianjun Yang², Xin Jiang², Jin Gao¹, Liang Bai¹, Yang Liu¹, Yeshayahu Lifshitz^1,3, Shuit-Tong Lee¹& Zhenhui Kang¹

单位：

¹Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials(FUNSOM), Soochow University, 199 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou, 215123 Jiangsu, China.

²Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen, 57076 Siegen, Germany.

³Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.

摘要：

Syngas, a CO and H₂ mixture mostly generated from non-renewable fossil fuels, is an essential feedstock for production of liquid fuels. Electrochemical reduction of CO₂ and H⁺/H₂O is an alternative renewable route to produce syngas. Here we introduce the concept of coupling a hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) catalyst with a CDots/C₃N₄ composite (a CO₂ reduction catalyst) to achieve a cheap, stable, selective, and efficient route for tunable syngas production. Co₃O₄, MoS₂, Au, and Pt serve as the HER component. The Co₃O₄-CDots-C₃N₄ electrocatalyst is found to be the most efficient among the combinations studied. The H₂/CO ratio of the produced syngas is tunable from 0.07:1 to 4:1 by controlling the potential. This catalyst is highly stable for syngas generation (over 100h) with no other products besides CO and H₂. Insight into the mechanisms balancing between CO₂ reduction and H₂ evolution when applying the HER-CDots-C₃N₄ catalyst concept is provided.

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12.124

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链接：

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01893-7

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