Citation: LIU Kai-fan, LI Zong-jun, CHEN Wei. Electrocatalytic Activities of Au₂₄ and Au₂₅ Nanoclusters for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction[J]. Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry, ;2022, 50(4): 593-601. doi: 10.19756/j.issn.0253-3820.221092 shu

Electrocatalytic Activities of Au₂₄ and Au₂₅ Nanoclusters for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction

LIU Kai-fan ^1,2 ,
LI Zong-jun ^1,2 ,
CHEN Wei ^1,2,,

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State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China;2 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Corresponding author: CHEN Wei, weichen@ciac.ac.cn
Received Date: 22 February 2022
Revised Date: 22 March 2022

Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 21773224)Supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan(No. 2020YFB1506001)

Reduction of CO₂ into useful fuels and chemicals through electrochemical catalytic processes is currently the most promising way to address CO₂ emissions and utilize CO₂.Herein, we report a method to use atomically well-defined gold nanoclusters Au₂₄ NCs and Au₂₅ NCs as catalytically active sites for electrochemical carbon dioxide electroreduction reaction (CO₂RR) by supporting the as-prepared Au₂₄ NCs and Au₂₅ NCs on carbon substrates.The electrochemical results show that Au₂₄ NCs/C achieves the highest CO Faradaic efficiency of 77.5%at-0.58 V, and Au₂₅ NCs/C achieves the highest CO Faradaic efficiency of 68.9% at-0.68 V.By comparison, it can be found that the highest CO Faradaic efficiency obtained on Au₂₄ NCs/C is 8.6% higher than that on Au₂₅ NCs/C.Meanwhile, compared to Au₂₅ NCs/C, the potential for the highest CO Faradaic efficiency has a positive shift of 100 mV on Au₂₄ NCs/C.These data indicate that Au₂₄ NCs/C has better catalytic activity than Au₂₅ NCs/C for CO₂RR, which may be attributed to the different coordination structures of the two gold clusters.Compared with Au₂₅ NCs/C, Au₂₄ NCs/C lacks a central atom, and therefore its peripheral ligands may be more easily to drop off from the cluster surface, resulting in more exposed Au active sites for CO₂RR.This study reveals the structure effect of metal clusters on their electrocatalytic properties and is helpful for the design of high-performance and highly selective CO₂RR catalysts.
- Gold nanoclusters,
- Active sites,
- Nanocatalysts,
- Electrocatalysis,
- Carbon dioxide electroreduction
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