Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon supported CuSb for electroreduction of CO2

Yue Hou; Cheng-Jie Jiang; Ying Wang; Jing-Wei Zhu; Jia-Xing Lu; Huan Wang

doi:10.1039/d2ra01893d

Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon supported CuSb for electroreduction of CO₂

RSC Adv. 2022 Apr 29;12(21):12997-13002. doi: 10.1039/d2ra01893d. eCollection 2022 Apr 28.

Authors

Yue Hou¹, Cheng-Jie Jiang¹, Ying Wang¹, Jing-Wei Zhu¹, Jia-Xing Lu^{1

2}, Huan Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 China jxlu@chem.ecnu.edu.cn hwang@chem.ecnu.edu.cn.
² Institute of Eco-Chongming Shanghai 202162 China.

Abstract

The construction of an efficient catalyst for electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ to high value-added fuels has received extensive attention. Herein, nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon (NMC) was used to support CuSb to prepare a series of materials for electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ to CH₄. The catalytic activity of the composites was significantly improved compared with that of Cu/NMC. In addition, the Cu content also influenced the activity of electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction reaction. Among the materials used, the CuSb/NMC-2 (Cu: 5.9 wt%, Sb: 0.49 wt%) catalyst exhibited the best performance for electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction, and the faradaic efficiency of CH₄ reached 35%, and the total faradaic efficiency of C1-C2 products reached 67%.