Citation: Kuanda Xu, Shisheng Zheng, Yang Li, Honghao Chu, Qi Xiong, Zongwei Mei, Qinghe Zhao, Luyi Yang, Shunning Li, Feng Pan. Constructing low-valent Ni nanoparticles for highly selective CO₂ reduction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(1): 424-427. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.07.016 shu

Constructing low-valent Ni nanoparticles for highly selective CO₂ reduction

School of Advanced Materials, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China

ly2020@pku.edu.cn

meizw@pkusz.edu.cn

panfeng@pkusz.edu.cn

Received Date: 6 May 2021
Revised Date: 14 June 2021
Accepted Date: 6 July 2021
Available Online: 30 July 2021

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The electroreduction of CO₂ (CO₂RR) into value-added chemicals is a sustainable strategy for mitigating global warming and managing the global carbon balance. However, developing an efficient and selective catalyst is still the central challenge. Here, we developed a simple two-step pyrolysis method to confine low-valent Ni-based nanoparticles within nitrogen-doped carbon (Ni-NC). As a result, such Ni-based nanoparticles can effectively reduce CO₂ to CO, with a maximum CO Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 98% at an overpotential of 0.8 V, as long as good stability. Experimental and the density functional theory (DFT) calculation results reveal that low-valent Ni plays a key role in activity and selectivity enhancement. This study presents a new understanding of Ni-based CO₂RR, and provides a simple, scalable approach to the synthesis of low-valent catalysts towards efficient CO₂RR.
- CO₂ reduction reaction,
- Ni-based catalysts,
- Electrocatalytic selectivity,
- Low-valent catalyst,
- DFT calculation
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