Monday, 14 May 2018: 08:20
Room 205 (Washington State Convention Center)
In recently, a lot of efforts have been devoted to developing electrocatalysts capable to convert CO2 into chemical fuels. Especially, CO2 conversion into multiple carbons (≥ C2) are desired due to higher volumetric energy density and lower volatility than C1 chemicals. Among transition metals, Cu is the only one that can produce C2 products; however, selectivity of the C2 chemical is very low. In this presentation, the selectivity control of C2 chemicals depending on morphology of Cu nanomeshes will be introduced. Faradaic efficiencies of 38 % and 46 % for ethylene and ethane, respectively, have been achieved thanks to local pH and flow field controls in small nanopores. Our approach provide a new strategy for systematic tunability of the product selectivity and reaction kinetics of CO2 reduction.

