Nature Communications (May 2021)
Silica-copper catalyst interfaces enable carbon-carbon coupling towards ethylene electrosynthesis
- Jun Li,
- Adnan Ozden,
- Mingyu Wan,
- Yongfeng Hu,
- Fengwang Li,
- Yuhang Wang,
- Reza R. Zamani,
- Dan Ren,
- Ziyun Wang,
- Yi Xu,
- Dae-Hyun Nam,
- Joshua Wicks,
- Bin Chen,
- Xue Wang,
- Mingchuan Luo,
- Michael Graetzel,
- Fanglin Che,
- Edward H. Sargent,
- David Sinton
Affiliations
- Jun Li
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Adnan Ozden
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Mingyu Wan
- Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Yongfeng Hu
- Canadian Light Source Inc., University of Saskatchewan
- Fengwang Li
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Yuhang Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Reza R. Zamani
- Interdisciplinary Center for Electron Microscopy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Dan Ren
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Ziyun Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Yi Xu
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Dae-Hyun Nam
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Joshua Wicks
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Bin Chen
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Xue Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Mingchuan Luo
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Michael Graetzel
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Fanglin Che
- Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Edward H. Sargent
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- David Sinton
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23023-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
CO2-to-ethylene conversion using renewable electricity provides a sustainable route to produce valuable chemicals. Here, the authors report high ethylene activity of 215 mA cm−2 and selectivity of 65% made possible by silica clusters in copper.
