化学
阴极
双功能
电化学
阳极
电子转移
催化作用
分解水
镍
金属有机骨架
无机化学
电极
物理化学
吸附
光催化
有机化学
生物化学
作者
Meng‐Di Zhang,Jia‐Run Huang,Wen Shi,Pei‐Qin Liao,Xiao‐Ming Chen
摘要
It is a very important but still challenging task to develop bifunctional electrocatalysts for highly efficient CO2 overall splitting. Herein, we report a stable metal–organic framework (denoted as PcNi-Co–O), composed of (2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octahydroxyphthalocyaninato)nickel(II) (PcNi-(O–)8) ligands and the planar CoO4 nodes, for CO2 overall splitting. When working as both cathode and anode catalysts (i.e., PcNi-Co–O||PcNi-Co–O), PcNi-Co–O achieved a commercial-scale current density of 123 mA cm–2 (much higher than the reported values (0.2–12 mA cm–2)) with a Faradic efficiency (CO) of 98% at a low cell voltage of 4.4 V. Mechanism studies suggested the synergistic effects between two active sites, namely, (i) electron transfer from CoO4 to PcNi sites under electric fields, resulting in the raised oxidizability/reducibility of CoO4/PcNi sites, respectively; (ii) the energy-level matching of cathode and anode catalysts can reduce the energy barrier of electron transfer between them and improve the performance of CO2 overall splitting.
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