Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Inverse ZrO2/Cu as a highly efficient methanol synthesis catalyst from CO2 hydrogenation

  • Congyi Wu,
  • Lili Lin,
  • Jinjia Liu,
  • Jingpeng Zhang,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Tong Zhou,
  • Ning Rui,
  • Siyu Yao,
  • Yuchen Deng,
  • Feng Yang,
  • Wenqian Xu,
  • Jun Luo,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Binhang Yan,
  • Xiao-Dong Wen,
  • José A. Rodriguez,
  • Ding Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19634-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Enhancing the intrinsic activity and space time yield of Cu based heterogeneous methanol synthesis catalysts is one of the major topics in CO2 hydrogenation. Here the authors develop a highly active inverse catalyst composed of fine ZrO2 islands dispersed on metallic Cu nanoparticles.