Composition dependent activity of Cu–Pt nanocrystals for electrochemical reduction of CO2

Xin Guo; Yuxia Zhang; Chen Deng; Xinyuan Li; Yifei Xue; Yi-Ming Yan; Kening Sun

doi:10.1039/C4CC08175G

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Composition dependent activity of Cu–Pt nanocrystals for electrochemical reduction of CO₂†

Xin Guo,^a Yuxia Zhang,^a Chen Deng,^a Xinyuan Li,^a Yifei Xue,^a Yi-Ming Yan*^a and Kening Sun*^a

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^a Beijing Key Laboratory for Chemical Power Source and Green Catalysis, School of Chemical Engineering and Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
E-mail: bityanyiming@163.com, bitkeningsun@163.com

Abstract

The Cu–Pt nanocrystal (NC) samples with concisely controlled atomic ratios (Cu : Pt) are prepared by a facile strategy. We demonstrate that Cu–Pt (3 : 1) NCs exhibit the highest activity and faradaic efficiency in the CO₂ electroreduction reaction among all the as-prepared samples.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC08175G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 Oct 2014
Accepted: 01 Dec 2014
First published: 01 Dec 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 1345-1348

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Composition dependent activity of Cu–Pt nanocrystals for electrochemical reduction of CO₂

X. Guo, Y. Zhang, C. Deng, X. Li, Y. Xue, Y. Yan and K. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 1345 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC08175G

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