Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Stabilizing copper sites in coordination polymers toward efficient electrochemical C-C coupling

  • Yongxiang Liang,
  • Jiankang Zhao,
  • Yu Yang,
  • Sung-Fu Hung,
  • Jun Li,
  • Shuzhen Zhang,
  • Yong Zhao,
  • An Zhang,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Dominique Appadoo,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zhigang Geng,
  • Fengwang Li,
  • Jie Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35993-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Typically, Cu catalysts agglomerate under electrochemical conditions. Here, the authors report a coordination polymer catalyst with neighboring Cu sites which remain isolated and reduce CO2 to C2H4 with high selectivity and stability