Abstract

Conversion of CO2 into value-added chemicals by use of renewable energy is promising to achieve a carbon-neutral energy cycle. Here, the authors show that AgP2 is a stable, selective and efficient syngas catalyst for solar-to-fuel conversion with a 3-fold lower overpotential compared to the benchmark Ag catalyst.

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Title
Colloidal silver diphosphide (AgP2) nanocrystals as low overpotential catalysts for CO2 reduction to tunable syngas
Author
Li, Hui 1 ; Peng, Wen 2 ; Itanze, Dominique S 1 ; Hood, Zachary D 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ma, Xiao 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kim, Michael 1 ; Adhikari, Shiba 4 ; Chang, Lu 1 ; Dun, Chaochao 5 ; Miaofang Chi 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Qiu, Yejun 2 ; Geyer, Scott M 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 
2  Shenzhen Engineering Lab of Flexible Transparent Conductive Films, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China 
3  Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 
4  Material Science and Technology Division (MSTD), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA 
5  Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA 
6  Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA 
Pages
1-10
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13388-8
ProQuest document ID
2327344026
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.