Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Unveiling hydrocerussite as an electrochemically stable active phase for efficient carbon dioxide electroreduction to formate

  • Yanmei Shi,
  • Yan Ji,
  • Jun Long,
  • Yu Liang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Yifu Yu,
  • Jianping Xiao,
  • Bin Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17120-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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While electrochemical CO2 reduction represents a renewable means to produce high-value products, catalyst transformation may compete with desirable processes. Here, authors prevent catalyst self-reduction during CO2 electroreduction and show stable, formate-selective performances of hydrocerussite.