Electroreduction of CO on Polycrystalline Copper at Low Overpotentials

Erlend Bertheussen; Thomas V. Hogg; Younes Abghoui; Albert K. Engstfeld; Ib Chorkendorff; Ifan E.L. Stephens

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00092

Electroreduction of CO on Polycrystalline Copper at Low Overpotentials

Erlend Bertheussen, Thomas V. Hogg, Younes Abghoui, Albert K. Engstfeld, Ib Chorkendorff^*, Ifan E.L. Stephens

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Abstract

Cu is the only monometallic electrocatalyst to produce highly reduced products from CO₂ selectively because of its intermediate binding of CO. We investigate the performance of polycrystalline Cu for the electroreduction of CO in alkaline media (0.1 M KOH) at low overpotentials (-0.4 to -0.6 V vs RHE). We find that polycrystalline Cu is highly active at these potentials. The overall CO reduction rates are comparable to those of the nanostructured forms of the material, albeit with a distinct product distribution. While nanostructured forms of Cu favor alcohols, polycrystalline Cu produces greater amounts of C₂ and C₃ aldehydes, as well as ethylene.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	634-640
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS Energy Letters
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00092
Publication status	Published - 9 Mar 2018

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This work was funded by the Villum Foundation V-SUSTAIN grant 9455 to the Villum Center for the Science of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals. Y.A. received funding from The Icelandic Research Fund; A.K.E. received funding from the People Program (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under REA Grant Agreement No. 609405 (COFUNDPostdocDTU) [information available on web site]. We thank Jakob Kibsgaard for producing the abstract and table of contents graphic.

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