Jiang, Kun and Huang, Yufeng and Zeng, Guosong and Toma, Francesca M. and Goddard, William A., III and Bell, Alexis T. (2020) Effects of Surface Roughness on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ over Cu. ACS Energy Letters, 5 (4). pp. 1206-1214. ISSN 2380-8195. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00482. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200319-124814828
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Abstract
We have investigated the role of surface roughening on the CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR) over Cu. The activity and product selectivity of Cu surfaces roughened by plasma pretreatment in Ar, O₂, or N₂ were compared with that of electrochemically polished Cu samples. Differences in total and product current densities, the ratio of current densities for HER (the hydrogen evolution reaction) to CO₂RR, and the ratio of current densities for C₂₊ to C₁ products depend on the electrochemically active surface and are nearly independent of plasma composition. Theoretical analysis of an electropolished and roughened Cu surface reveals a higher fraction of undercoordinated Cu sites on the roughened surface, sites that bind CO preferentially. Roughened surfaces also contain square sites similar to those on a Cu(100) surface but with neighboring step sites, which adsorb OC–COH, a precursor to C₂₊ products. These findings explain the increases in the formation of oxygenates and hydrocarbons relative to CO and the ratio of oxygenates to hydrocarbons observed with increasing surface roughness.
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Additional Information: | © 2020 American Chemical Society. Received: February 29, 2020; Accepted: March 19, 2020; Published: March 19, 2020. This material is based upon work performed by the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number DE-SC0004993. K.J. acknowledges the startup funding from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. We also acknowledge Ms. Lien-Chun Weng, Dr. Zhou Lin, and Prof. Martin Head-Gordon for insightful discussions. Author Contributions: K.J. and Y.H. contributed equally to this work. The authors declare no competing financial interest. | ||||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00482 | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Effects of Surface Roughness on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 over Cu. Kun Jiang, Yufeng Huang, Guosong Zeng, Francesca M. Toma, William A. Goddard, III, and Alexis T. Bell. ACS Energy Letters 2020 5 (4), 1206-1214; DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00482 | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||
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