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Atomically Dispersed Ga Synergy Lewis Acid‐Base Pairs in F‐doped Mesoporous Cu2O for Efficient Eletroreduction of CO2 to C2+ Products

Jiahao Wang, Qinyuan Ji, Hu Zang, Yan Zhang, Changjiang Liu, Nan Yu, Baoyou Geng

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 34· Issue 41

Abstract

Abstract Electroreduction of CO2 into high‐value chemicals and fuels driven is an effective way to alleviate the environmental crisis, but it suffers from poor activity and low selectivity of the catalyst. Single‐atom catalysts have excellent selectivity and the highest atomic efficiency, and are widely used in the 2‐electron transfer to produce CO. However, electroreduction of CO2 to C2+ products involves complex processes such as multi‐electron reaction and competitive adsorption, so single‐atom catalysis is often powerless. Herein, a single‐atom Ga‐anchored F‐doped Cu2O catalyst with dual active sites is reported. The Lewis acid‐base pairs and Ga single atom sites promote the adsorption/activation of CO2 and the dissociation of water molecules, respectively, enhance the coverage of *CO and *H, and their synergy optimizes the reaction path. At a high current density of 600 mA cm−2, the FEC2+ reached 72.8 ± 3.2% with remarkable stability. Experiments and theory calculations demonstrate that the dual sites increase the coverage of *CO and *H, and the key intermediate *CO is transformed into *CHO through protonation reaction, which changes the reaction path from the C─C coupling (*OCCO) to the protonation followed by C─C coupling (*OCCHO) with low energy barrier, greatly improving the selectivity for C2+ products.
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OpenAlex topics: CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts · Ionic liquids properties and applications · Advanced battery technologies research

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Affiliations

College of Chemistry and Materials Science The key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids Ministry of Education The Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Clean Energy of Anhui Higher Education Institutes Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New‐Energy Vehicle Battery Energy‐Storage Materials Anhui Normal University Jiuhua Road 189 Wuhu 241002 China

Institute of Energy Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center Hefei 230031 China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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