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Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas with a wide range of CO/H2 ratio over Ni/Fe binary single-atom catalysts

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A series of carbon-based binary single-atom catalysts of Fe and Ni coordinated by nitrogen are fabricated using a glucose-chelating method. Depending on the Ni/Fe content, they exhibit a wide-range of controllable CO/H2 ratio from 0.14 to 10.86, which is meaningful to specific chemical processes. The durability of the catalyst is evaluated over an 8-hour period with no significant degradation of activity. The variation of the faradaic efficiency with Ni/Fe content is justified by density-functional-theory based calculation of the reaction barrier in both hydrogen evolution and CO2 reduction reactions.

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This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, China (No. 18JCYBJC20600) and Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (No. 19KZS207).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Meng Zhang, Zheng Hu, Linghui Zhang, Qian Song, Wei Zhou & Shi Hu

  2. Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, 230000, China

    Shi Hu

  3. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Lin Gu & Qinghua Zhang

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Zhang, M., Hu, Z., Gu, L. et al. Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas with a wide range of CO/H2 ratio over Ni/Fe binary single-atom catalysts. Nano Res. 13, 3206–3211 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2988-1

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