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    Investigating the Origin of Enhanced C2+ Selectivity in Oxide-/Hydroxide-derived Copper Electrodes during CO2 Electroreduction

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    Authors
    Lei, Qiong
    Zhu, Hui
    Song, Kepeng
    Wei, Nini
    Liu, Lingmei
    Zhang, Daliang
    Yin, Jun cc
    Dong, Xinglong cc
    Yao, Kexin
    Wang, Ning
    Li, Xinghua
    Davaasuren, Bambar cc
    Wang, Jianjian
    Han, Yu cc
    KAUST Department
    Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center
    Chemical Science Program
    Electron Microscopy
    Nanostructured Functional Materials (NFM) laboratory
    Physical Characterization
    Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
    Date
    2020-02-10
    Online Publication Date
    2020-02-10
    Print Publication Date
    2020-03-04
    Embargo End Date
    2021-02-11
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/661538
    
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    Abstract
    Oxide-/hydroxide-derived copper electrodes exhibit excellent selectivity toward C2+ products during electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). However, the origin of such enhanced selectivity remains controversial. Here, we prepared two Cu-based electrodes with mixed oxidation states, namely HQ-Cu (containing Cu, Cu2O, CuO) and AN-Cu (containing Cu, Cu(OH)2). We extracted ultra-thin specimen from the electrodes using a focused ion beam to investigate the distribu-tion and evolution of various Cu species by electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy. We found that at the steady stage of CO2RR, the electrodes have all been reduced to Cu0, regardless of the initial states, suggesting that the high C2+ selectivities are not associated with specific oxidation states of Cu. We verified this conclusion by control experi-ments, in which HQ-Cu and AN-Cu were pretreated to fully reduce oxides/hydroxides to Cu0, and the pretreated elec-trodes showed even higher C2+ selectivity, compared with their un-pretreated counterparts. We observed that the ox-ide/hydroxide crystals in HQ-Cu and AN-Cu were fragmented into nano-sized irregular Cu grains under the applied nega-tive potentials. Such a fragmentation process, which is the consequence of an oxidation-reduction cycle and does not oc-cur in electropolished Cu, not only built an intricate network of grain boundaries, but also exposed a variety of high-index facets. These two features greatly facilitated the C-C coupling, thus accounting for the enhanced C2+ selectivity. Our work demonstrates that the use of advanced characterization techniques enables investigating the structural and chemical states of electrodes in unprecedented detail, to gain new insights into a widely studied system.
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    Lei, Q., Zhu, H., Song, K., Wei, N., Liu, L., Zhang, D., … Han, Y. (2020). Investigating the Origin of Enhanced C2+ Selectivity in Oxide-/Hydroxide-derived Copper Electrodes during CO2 Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. doi:10.1021/jacs.9b11790
    Sponsors
    The financial support for this work was provided by Baseline Funds (BAS/1/1372-01-01) to Y.H. from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. This research used resources of the Core Labs of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
    Publisher
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
    Journal
    Journal of the American Chemical Society
    DOI
    10.1021/jacs.9b11790
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    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b11790
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1021/jacs.9b11790
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    Articles; Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center; Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division; Chemical Science Program

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