箔法
铜
蚀刻(微加工)
材料科学
电化学
催化作用
无机化学
化学工程
分析化学(期刊)
纳米技术
冶金
化学
复合材料
电极
物理化学
有机化学
图层(电子)
工程类
作者
Weicong Xu,Chao Liu,Peijun Li,Hongyun Zeng,LU Xian-jun,Xinyu Li,Tao Li,Rui Xiao
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139286
摘要
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (eCO2R) to CH4 is a prospective approach for producing high value-added fuels. In this work, an effective approach was proposed by surface reconstruction using copper foil to facilitate eCO2R to CH4. The copper foil surface reconstruction was achieved via electrochemical etching in dilute phosphoric acid. Comprehensive characterizations suggested that the crystallinity and chemical binding energy states of the copper foil were well preserved after surface reconstruction, but the arrangement of copper atoms on the surface was adjusted. Etching time for 80 s was the most preferable condition, obtaining a uniform valley pattern structure with abundant grain boundaries, reporting the highest CH4 Faraday efficiency of 68.84% which was an order of magnitude higher compared to green foil counterpart. The relevant partial current density, CH4 production rate, and half-cell power conversion energy were measured to be −16.32 mA cm−2, 0.174 μmol s−1 cm−2, and 28.8% respectively from eCO2R at −1.3 V (vs. RHE). The in-situ ATR-IR spectroscopy confirmed that the surface reconstructed copper foil can significantly strengthen the adsorption of the *CO intermediate, facilitating its further hydrogenation to produce CH4 instead of dimerization to give C2 products. This work expanded the method of surface modification for copper foil via electrochemical etching and realized the regulation of geometric morphology on catalyst surface to obtain the desired performance for CO2 electroreduction reaction.
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