Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China.
Nanoscale. 2018 May 10;10(18):8372-8376. doi: 10.1039/c8nr00642c.
First principles calculations show that gold atoms with low generalized coordination numbers possess high activity for electroreduction of CO2 to CO. Atom-resolved three-dimensional reconstruction reveals that dealloyed nanoporous gold possesses such a favourable structure characteristic, which results in a faradaic efficiency as high as 94% for CO production.
第一性原理计算表明,广义配位数较低的金原子对 CO2 电化学还原为 CO 具有高活性。原子分辨的三维重构揭示,脱合金纳米多孔金具有这种有利的结构特征,从而使 CO 的法拉第效率高达 94%。