journal article·2025-07

Pressure‐Boosted C–C Coupling for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol over the Cascade Sites of Cu Single‐Atom and Cu Cluster

Haoyang Wu, Wenhai Xu, Benqiang Tian, Jiaoling Zou, Kovan K. Abdalla, Mengxuan Li, Linlin Zhou, Boyuan Li, Jiage Yu, Yuan Wang, Jiazhan Li, Xiaoming Sun

Small· Volume 21· Issue 29
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Abstract

Abstract Tandem catalysis of the CO2 electroreduction reaction (CO2RR) offers a promising way to obtain multicarbon products (C2+) with high Faradaic efficiency (FE). However, the synchronously changed CO supply and consumption with potentials and the mismatch between the two potential windows of the different components in tandem catalysts impede further understanding and development of tandem catalysis. Herein, a novel strategy of pressure regulating to separately promote the CO supply and consumption is reported on the cascade sites of Cu single‐atom and Cu cluster, where a near‐linear relationship between CO2 pressure, CO supply, and ethanol FE is well established. Benefiting from the above strategy, the ethanol FE of 41.2% is achieved under 26 bar CO2, which increases by ≈3 times that under ambient pressure. This work provides a new method of CO supply regulation and gives more mechanism insights into the tandem catalysis of CO2 electroreduction toward multicarbon products.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts · Ionic liquids properties and applications · Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities · National Key Research and Development Program of China · Ministry of Finance

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