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Ultrasmall Au nanocatalysts supported on nitrided carbon for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction: the role of the carbon support in high selectivity

Published:2018 Issue:30 Volume:10 Page:14678-14686
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Jin Lei¹²³⁴^ORCID,Liu Ben¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Wang Pu¹⁶⁷⁸,Yao Huiqin¹²³⁴¹,Achola Laura A.¹²³⁴,Kerns Peter¹²³⁴,Lopes Aaron¹²³⁴,Yang Yue¹²³⁴,Ho Josha⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²^ORCID,Moewes Alexander⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²^ORCID,Pei Yong¹⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,He Jie¹²³⁴¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry

2. University of Connecticut

3. Storrs

4. USA

5. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries

6. Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education

7. Xiangtan University

8. China

9. Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

10. University of Saskatchewan

11. Saskatoon

12. Canada

13. Institute of Material Science

Abstract

Ultrasmall Au nanocatalysts supported on nitrided carbon show superior mass activity and high selectivity for CO₂ electrochemical reduction as a result of the synergy of nitrogen sites of the carbon and electron-rich Au surface.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Canada Research Chairs

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/NR/C8NR04322A

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