Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Understanding activity and selectivity of metal-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2

  • Wen Ju,
  • Alexander Bagger,
  • Guang-Ping Hao,
  • Ana Sofia Varela,
  • Ilya Sinev,
  • Volodymyr Bon,
  • Beatriz Roldan Cuenya,
  • Stefan Kaskel,
  • Jan Rossmeisl,
  • Peter Strasser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01035-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Inexpensive and selective electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction hold promise for sustainable fuel production. Here, the authors report N-coordinated, non-noble metal-doped porous carbons as efficient and selective electrocatalysts for CO2 to CO conversion.