Citation: Lingyi Kong, Zhe Chen, Qinghai Cai, Lichang Yin, Jingxiang Zhao. Efficient electrochemical reduction of CO to C₂ products on the transition metal and boron co-doped black phosphorene[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(4): 2183-2187. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.09.010 shu

Efficient electrochemical reduction of CO to C₂ products on the transition metal and boron co-doped black phosphorene

Lingyi Kong ^a ,
Zhe Chen ^b ,
Qinghai Cai ^{a, c} ,
Lichang Yin ^{d, e, *,} ,
Jingxiang Zhao ^{a, *,}

a.
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
b.
Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China
c.
Heilongjiang Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Cold Region Ecological Safety, Harbin 150025, China
d.
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
e.
Department of Physics and Electronic Information, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China

lcyin@imr.ac.cn

xjz_hmily@163.com

Received Date: 4 August 2021
Revised Date: 30 August 2021
Accepted Date: 2 September 2021
Available Online: 8 September 2021

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The synthesis of high-value multi-carbon products through the electrochemical reduction of carbon monoxide (COER) is one of the promising avenues for carbon utilization and energy storage, in which searching for efficient electrocatalysts that exhibit moderate CO intermediate binding strength and low kinetic barrier for C-C coupling is a key issue. Herein, by means of comprehensive density functional theory (DFT) computations, we theoretically designed three synergistic coupling catalysts by co-doping transition metal (TM = Fe, Co and Ni) and boron (B) into the two-dimensional black phosphorene (BP), namely TM-B@BP for COER to C₂ products. DFT computations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations reveal the good stability and high feasibility of these proposed TM-B@BP catalysts for practical applications and future experimental synthesis. More interestingly, high-value ethylene (C₂H₄), ethane (C₂H₆) and ethanol (C₂H₅OH) products can be obtained on these three designed electrocatalysts with ultra-small limiting potentials (−0.20~−0.41 V) and low kinetic energy barriers of C-C coupling (0.52~0.91 eV). Meanwhile, the competitive one-carbon (C₁) products and hydrogen evolution reaction can also be effectively suppressed. The promising activity and selectivity of these three designed electrocatalysts render them ideal candidates for CO electroreduction, thus providing a cost-effective opportunity to achieve a sustainable production of high value C₂ chemicals and fuels.
- CO reduction,
- Electrocatalysis,
- Multi-carbon products,
- Density functional theory,
- 2D black phosphorene
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