Dynamically Stabilizing Oxygen Atoms in Silver Catalyst for Highly Selective and Durable CO2 Reduction Reaction

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024-12, Vol.63 (49), p.e202410932-n/a
• Main Authors: Mao, Yuanxin, Mao, Qing, Yang, Hongbin, Liu, Qi, Dong, Xufeng, Li, Yifan, Zhou, Shizong, Liu, Bin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Ag electrode; Atomic structure; Bias; Carbon dioxide; Catalysts; Catalytic activity; Chemical reduction; CO2 reduction; Electrochemistry; Electrolysis; Electronic structure; Industrial applications; Oxygen; Oxygen atoms; pulsed bias; reaction mechanisms; Residues; Selectivity; Silver; Structural stability
• ISSN: 1433-7851; 1521-3773; 1521-3773
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410932

Oxide derived catalyst displays outstanding catalytic activity and selectivity in electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), in which, it is found that residue oxygen atoms play a pivotal role in regulating the catalyst's electronic structure and thus the CO2RR process. Unfortunately, the intrinsic thermodynamic instability of oxygen atoms in oxide derived catalyst under cathodic CO2RR potentials makes it unstable during continuous electrolysis, greatly hindering its practical industrial applications. In this work, we develop a pulsed‐bias technique that is able to dynamically stabilize the residue oxygen atoms in oxide derived catalyst during electrochemical CO2RR. As a result, the oxide derived catalyst under pulsed bias exhibits super catalytic stability in catalyzing electrochemical CO2RR, while keeping excellent catalytic activity and selectivity. A pulsed‐bias technique was developed to dynamically stabilize oxygen atoms in silver (Ag) electrodes under operando conditions, allowing to achieve highly selective and durable electrochemical CO2 reduction catalysis.