摘要
Developing highly efficient electrochemical catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction reaction(CO_(2)RR)provides a solution to battle global warming issues resulting from ever-increasing carbon footprint due to human activities.Copper(Cu)is known for its efficiency in CO_(2)RR towards value-added hydrocarbons;hence its unique structural properties along with various Cu alloys have been extensively explored in the past decade.Here,we demonstrate a two-step approach to achieve intimate atomic Cu-Ag interfaces on the surface of Cu nanowires,which show greatly improved CO_(2)RR selectivity towards methane(CH4).The specially designed Cu-Ag interfaces showed an impressive maximum Faradaic efficiency(FE)of 72%towards CH4 production at-1.17 V(vs.reversible hydrogen electrode(RHE)).
基金
TEM work was conducted using the facilities in the electron imaging center of California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California Los Angles and the Irvine Materials Research Institute at the University of California Irvine.C.C.,J.C.and Y.H.acknowledge support by the Office of Naval Research(ONR)(No.N000141712608)
C.S.L.and H.M.L.acknowledge support by a National Research Foundation(NRF)of Korea grant funded by the Korean Government(Nos.NRF-2017 R1E1A1A03071049 and NRF-2020R1A5A6017701).
