Nature Communications (May 2020)

Selective electroreduction of CO2 to acetone by single copper atoms anchored on N-doped porous carbon

  • Kun Zhao,
  • Xiaowa Nie,
  • Haozhi Wang,
  • Shuo Chen,
  • Xie Quan,
  • Hongtao Yu,
  • Wonyong Choi,
  • Guanghui Zhang,
  • Bupmo Kim,
  • Jingguang G. Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16381-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Efficient electroreduction of CO2 to multi-carbon products is challenging. Here, the single atom Cu encapsulated on N-doped porous carbon catalysts are designed for reducing CO2 to acetone at low overpotentials and the active sites are identified as Cu coordination with four pyrrole-N atoms.