Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces

  • Dorna Esrafilzadeh,
  • Ali Zavabeti,
  • Rouhollah Jalili,
  • Paul Atkin,
  • Jaecheol Choi,
  • Benjamin J. Carey,
  • Robert Brkljača,
  • Anthony P. O’Mullane,
  • Michael D. Dickey,
  • David L. Officer,
  • Douglas R. MacFarlane,
  • Torben Daeneke,
  • Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08824-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While CO2 reduction proves an appealing means to convert greenhouse emissions to high-value products, there are few materials capable of such a conversion. Here, the authors demonstrate a liquid-metal electrocatalyst to convert CO2 directly into solid carbon that can be used as capacitor electrodes.