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Electrodeposited highly-oriented bismuth microparticles for efficient CO2 electroreduction into formate

Show Author's Information Chen Lin,  Yan Liu,  Xiangdong Kong,  Zhigang Geng( ),  Jie Zeng( )
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Bi is one of the most fascinating catalysts for the formation of HCOO− towards CO2 electroreduction. Herein, we developed electrodeposited angular-shaped Bi microparticles (Bi MP) with exposed surfaces of {003} and {101} planes as efficient catalyst for the electroreduction of CO2 into HCOO−. During CO2 electroreduction, Bi MP achieved a Faraday efficiency (FE) for HCOO− of higher than 95% over a wide range of applied potential from −0.6 to −1.1 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (vs. RHE), whereas the FE for HCOO− of Bi nanoflakes (Bi NF) with exposed surfaces of {104} and {110} planes was around 70%. At −1.1 V vs. RHE, the partial current density for HCOO− of Bi MP was −271.7 mA·cm−2, 1.56 times as high as that of Bi NF. According to kinetic analysis and mechanistic study, highly-oriented surface of Bi MP not only facilitated Faradaic process and accelerated reaction kinetics via enhancing the CO2 activation, but also restrained competing hydrogen evolution reaction, thus boosting catalytic performance of the electroreduction of CO2 into HCOO−.


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Electrodeposited highly-oriented bismuth microparticles for efficient CO2 electroreduction into formate

Show Author's information Chen Lin, Yan Liu, Xiangdong Kong, Zhigang Geng( ), Jie Zeng( )
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

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Bi is one of the most fascinating catalysts for the formation of HCOO− towards CO2 electroreduction. Herein, we developed electrodeposited angular-shaped Bi microparticles (Bi MP) with exposed surfaces of {003} and {101} planes as efficient catalyst for the electroreduction of CO2 into HCOO−. During CO2 electroreduction, Bi MP achieved a Faraday efficiency (FE) for HCOO− of higher than 95% over a wide range of applied potential from −0.6 to −1.1 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (vs. RHE), whereas the FE for HCOO− of Bi nanoflakes (Bi NF) with exposed surfaces of {104} and {110} planes was around 70%. At −1.1 V vs. RHE, the partial current density for HCOO− of Bi MP was −271.7 mA·cm−2, 1.56 times as high as that of Bi NF. According to kinetic analysis and mechanistic study, highly-oriented surface of Bi MP not only facilitated Faradaic process and accelerated reaction kinetics via enhancing the CO2 activation, but also restrained competing hydrogen evolution reaction, thus boosting catalytic performance of the electroreduction of CO2 into HCOO−.

Keywords: CO2 electroreduction, electrodeposited Bi, formate product, highly-oriented bismuth surface

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Received: 13 February 2022
Revised: 19 March 2022
Accepted: 21 March 2022
Published: 26 April 2022
Issue date: December 2022

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2021YFA1500500 and 2019YFA0405600), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 21925204), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1932146, 92061111, and U19A2015), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Provincial Key Research and Development Program of Anhui (No. 202004a05020074), China Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (No. BX20200324), K. C. Wong Education Foundation (No. GJTD-2020-15), the DNL Cooperation Fund, CAS (No. DNL202003), and USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative (No. YD2340002002).

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