Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Coordination tailoring of Cu single sites on C3N4 realizes selective CO2 hydrogenation at low temperature

  • Tang Yang,
  • Xinnan Mao,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Xiaoping Wu,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Mingyu Chu,
  • Chih-Wen Pao,
  • Shize Yang,
  • Yong Xu,
  • Xiaoqing Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26316-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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CO2 hydrogenation has attracted intense scientific attention yet suffers from the disadvantage of poor activity and low selectivity. Here, the authors report that Cu single atom catalysts with tailored coordination environments on C3N4 serve as highly selective catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation.