Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Copper adparticle enabled selective electrosynthesis of n-propanol

  • Jun Li,
  • Fanglin Che,
  • Yuanjie Pang,
  • Chengqin Zou,
  • Jane Y. Howe,
  • Thomas Burdyny,
  • Jonathan P. Edwards,
  • Yuhang Wang,
  • Fengwang Li,
  • Ziyun Wang,
  • Phil De Luna,
  • Cao-Thang Dinh,
  • Tao-Tao Zhuang,
  • Makhsud I. Saidaminov,
  • Shaobo Cheng,
  • Tianpin Wu,
  • Y. Zou Finfrock,
  • Lu Ma,
  • Shang-Hsien Hsieh,
  • Yi-Sheng Liu,
  • Gianluigi A. Botton,
  • Way-Faung Pong,
  • Xiwen Du,
  • Jinghua Guo,
  • Tsun-Kong Sham,
  • Edward H. Sargent,
  • David Sinton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07032-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Upgrading wasted carbon emissions to high-value, multi-carbon products provides an economic route to reduce carbon dioxide levels, but such conversions have proven challenging. Here, authors explore copper adparticles as highly active surfaces that convert CO to n-propanol with high selectivities.