Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan Hubei 430074 China
2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Wuhan Textile University Wuhan Hubei 430200 China
3. Shanghai Advanced Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 201210 China
4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
Abstract
AbstractThe indirect electro‐epoxidation of ethylene (C2H4), produced from CO2 electroreduction (CO2R), holds immense promise for CO2 upcycling to valuable ethylene oxide (EO). However, this process currently has a mediocre Faradaic efficiency (FE) due to sluggish formation and rapid dissociation of active species, as well as reductive deactivation of Cu‐based electrocatalysts during the conversion of C2H4 to EO and CO2 to C2H4, respectively. Herein, we report a bromine‐induced dual‐enhancement strategy designed to concurrently promote both C2H4‐to‐EO and CO2‐to‐C2H4 conversions, thereby improving EO generation, using single‐atom Pt on N‐doped CNTs (Pt1/NCNT) and Br−‐bearing porous Cu2O as anode and cathode electrocatalysts, respectively. Physicochemical characterizations including synchrotron X‐ray absorption, operando infrared spectroscopy, and quasi in situ Raman spectroscopy/electron paramagnetic resonance with theoretical calculations reveal that the favorable Br2/HBrO generation over Pt1/NCNT with optimal intermediate binding facilitates C2H4‐to‐EO conversion with a high FE of 92.2 %, and concomitantly, the Br− with strong nucleophilicity protects active Cu+ species in Cu2O effectively for improved CO2‐to‐C2H4 conversion with a FE of 66.9 % at 800 mA cm−2, superior to those in the traditional chloride‐mediated case. Consequently, a single‐pass FE as high as 41.1 % for CO2‐to‐EO conversion can be achieved in a tandem system.
Subject
General Chemistry,Catalysis
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