Citation: Xiu-Hui ZHAO, De-Huang ZHUO, Qing-Song CHEN, Guo-Cong GUO. Enhancing Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to Formate by Regulating the Support Morphology[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2021, 40(3): 376-382. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254–5861.2011–2903 shu

Enhancing Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to Formate by Regulating the Support Morphology

Xiu-Hui ZHAO ^{a, b} ,
De-Huang ZHUO ^{a, b} ,
Qing-Song CHEN ^b,, ,
Guo-Cong GUO ^{a, b,,}

a.
College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
b.
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China

Corresponding author: Qing-Song CHEN, chenqs@fjirsm.ac.cn Guo-Cong GUO, gcguo@fjirsm.ac.cn
Received Date: 11 June 2020
Accepted Date: 9 July 2020

Fund Project: the National Key R & D Program of China 2017YFA0206802the National Key R & D Program of China 2017YFA0700103the Natural Science Foundation of China 21203200the Natural Science Foundation of China 91545201the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2017J01036the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2018J06005

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Electroreduction of CO₂ to formic acid has attracted extensive attention, because it is a promising strategy to re-utilize CO₂ and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that may favor the mitigation of energy and environment issues. Although great efforts have been made to tune the structure and composition of catalysts aiming to improve CO₂ conversion efficiency, seldom studies have been focused on the support regulation. In this work, ordered, porous TiO₂ nanotube arrays have been used as model support to study the impact of pore structure for CO₂ electrochemical reduction. It has been revealed that Pd supported on TiO₂ nanotube arrays substrate exhibits enhanced performance towards CO₂ reduction, showing a higher formate Faradaic efficiency of 20% over than Pd supported on TiO₂ film substrate. This study will shed new light on the design and synthesis of efficient catalysts by tuning the morphology of support for CO₂ conversion.
- CO₂ER,
- morphology,
- electrochemistry,
- formate
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