Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Carbon dioxide electroreduction on single-atom nickel decorated carbon membranes with industry compatible current densities

  • Hengpan Yang,
  • Qing Lin,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Xinyao Yu,
  • Zhong Cheng,
  • Guodong Li,
  • Qi Hu,
  • Xiangzhong Ren,
  • Qianling Zhang,
  • Jianhong Liu,
  • Chuanxin He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14402-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here the authors deploy Ni single atom-decorated carbon membranes as integrated gas diffusion electrodes to construct an extremely stable three-phase interface for CO2 electroreduction, producing CO with a partial current density of 308.4 mA cm–2 and a Faradaic efficiency of 88% for up to 120 h.