Nature Communications (Dec 2020)
Promoting CO2 methanation via ligand-stabilized metal oxide clusters as hydrogen-donating motifs
- Yuhang Li,
- Aoni Xu,
- Yanwei Lum,
- Xue Wang,
- Sung-Fu Hung,
- Bin Chen,
- Ziyun Wang,
- Yi Xu,
- Fengwang Li,
- Jehad Abed,
- Jianan Erick Huang,
- Armin Sedighian Rasouli,
- Joshua Wicks,
- Laxmi Kishore Sagar,
- Tao Peng,
- Alexander H. Ip,
- David Sinton,
- Hao Jiang,
- Chunzhong Li,
- Edward H. Sargent
Affiliations
- Yuhang Li
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Aoni Xu
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Yanwei Lum
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Xue Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Sung-Fu Hung
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Bin Chen
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Ziyun Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Yi Xu
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Fengwang Li
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Jehad Abed
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Jianan Erick Huang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Armin Sedighian Rasouli
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Joshua Wicks
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Laxmi Kishore Sagar
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Tao Peng
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- Alexander H. Ip
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- David Sinton
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
- Hao Jiang
- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
- Chunzhong Li
- Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
- Edward H. Sargent
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20004-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Electroreduction uses renewable energy to upgrade carbon dioxide to value-added chemicals and fuels. Here, the authors design a suite of ligand-stabilized metal oxide clusters to modulate the reduction pathways on a copper catalyst, enabling record activity for CO2-to-methane conversion.
