Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting19 (NFM19)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2019.259
Publication date: 18th July 2019
The electrochemical reduction of CO2 provides a promising means of converting surplus electricity and a waste emission into a sustainable fuel. The most attractive products are energy rich, high value fuels such as methanol, ethylene and ethanol.[1]
Methanol appears particularly challenging to produce using low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction routes, despite some reports to the contrary.[2] On the other hand, Cu-based surfaces are able to produce C2 products such as ethylene and ethanol with more reasonable efficiency.
I will present a series of investigations where we aim to establish the factors controlling the activity of Cu surfaces, ranging from size selected nanoparticles, oxide-derived Cu,[3] polycrystalline Cu[4] and vacuum-prepared single crystal Cu.[5] I will demonstrate how both surface structure and dynamic time dependent effects can steer the reaction.
We incorporate electrochemcial measurements, density functional theory simulations, electron microscopy, ultra high vacuum surface science measurements, gas chromatography and ulrasentive real-time electrochemical mass spectrometry.
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