Zhu Ying, Ding Shaosong, Wang Xingpu, Zhang Rong, Feng Xiaochen, Sun Xiang, Xiao Guozheng, Zhu Ying
Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2023 Jul 19;15(28):33633-33642. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c05892. Epub 2023 Jul 3.
Formate, as an important chemical raw material, is considered to be one of the most promising products for industrialization among CO electroreduction reaction (CORR) products, but it still suffers from poor selectivity and a low formation rate at a high current density on account of the competitory hydrogen evolution reaction. Herein, the heterogeneous nanostructure was constructed by anchoring InO nanoparticles on poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-modified carbon black (InO/PC), in which the PEDOT polymer interface layer could immobilize InO nanoparticles and obtain a notable reduction in electron transfer resistance among the InO particles, showing a 27% increase in the total electron transfer rate. The optimized InO/PC with rich heterogeneous interfaces selectively reduced CO to formate with a high FE of 95.4% and a current density of 251.4 mA cm under -1.18 V vs RHE. Also, the formate production rate for InO/PC was up to 7025.1 μmol h cm, surpassing most previously reported CORR catalysts. The in situ XRD results revealed that InO particles were reduced to metallic indium (In) as catalytic active sites during CORR. DFT calculations verified that a strong interface interaction between In sites and PC induced electron transfer from In sites to PC, which could optimize the charge distribution of active sites, accelerate electron transfer, and elevate the p-band center of In sites toward the Fermi level, thereby lowering the adsorption energy of *OCHO intermediates for CO conversion to formate.
甲酸盐作为一种重要的化学原料,被认为是CO电还原反应(CORR)产物中最具工业化潜力的产品之一,但由于竞争性析氢反应,在高电流密度下仍存在选择性差和生成速率低的问题。在此,通过将InO纳米颗粒锚定在聚(3,4 - 乙烯二氧噻吩)(PEDOT)修饰的炭黑(InO/PC)上构建了异质纳米结构,其中PEDOT聚合物界面层可以固定InO纳米颗粒,并显著降低InO颗粒之间的电子转移电阻,总电子转移速率提高了27%。优化后的具有丰富异质界面的InO/PC在相对于可逆氢电极(RHE)为-1.18 V的条件下,以95.4%的高法拉第效率(FE)和251.4 mA cm的电流密度选择性地将CO还原为甲酸盐。此外,InO/PC的甲酸盐生成速率高达7025.1 μmol h cm,超过了大多数先前报道的CORR催化剂。原位XRD结果表明,在CORR过程中InO颗粒被还原为金属铟(In)作为催化活性位点。密度泛函理论(DFT)计算证实,In位点与PC之间的强界面相互作用诱导电子从In位点转移到PC,这可以优化活性位点的电荷分布,加速电子转移,并将In位点的p带中心提升至费米能级,从而降低*OCHO中间体将CO转化为甲酸盐的吸附能。