Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Enhanced multi-carbon alcohol electroproduction from CO via modulated hydrogen adsorption

  • Jun Li,
  • Aoni Xu,
  • Fengwang Li,
  • Ziyun Wang,
  • Chengqin Zou,
  • Christine M. Gabardo,
  • Yuhang Wang,
  • Adnan Ozden,
  • Yi Xu,
  • Dae-Hyun Nam,
  • Yanwei Lum,
  • Joshua Wicks,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Jiatang Chen,
  • Yunzhou Wen,
  • Taotao Zhuang,
  • Mingchuan Luo,
  • Xiwen Du,
  • Tsun-Kong Sham,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Edward H. Sargent,
  • David Sinton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17499-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The electrocatalytic upgrading of CO to higher-value fuels provides a promising route to multi-carbon alcohol products. Here, the authors show that high alcohol selectivity and activity can be achieved by incorporating palladium in copper.