Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Operando spectroscopy study of the carbon dioxide electro-reduction by iron species on nitrogen-doped carbon

  • Chiara Genovese,
  • Manfred E. Schuster,
  • Emma K. Gibson,
  • Diego Gianolio,
  • Victor Posligua,
  • Ricardo Grau-Crespo,
  • Giannantonio Cibin,
  • Peter P. Wells,
  • Debi Garai,
  • Vladyslav Solokha,
  • Sandra Krick Calderon,
  • Juan J. Velasco-Velez,
  • Claudio Ampelli,
  • Siglinda Perathoner,
  • Georg Held,
  • Gabriele Centi,
  • Rosa Arrigo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03138-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Trapping carbon dioxide within usable chemicals is a promising means to mitigate climate change, yet electrochemical C–C couplings are challenging to perform. Here, the authors prepared iron oxyhydroxides on nitrogen-doped carbon that efficiently convert carbon dioxide to acetic acid.