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Nano Research 2023, 16(2): 2278-2285 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5058-z
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Interfacial engineering of SnO2/Bi2O2CO3 heterojunction on heteroatoms-doped carbon for high-performance CO2 electroreduction to formate

Show Author's Information Danni Wang1,  Tingting Sun1( ),  Lianbin Xu2,  Lei Gong1,  Baotong Chen1( ),  Pianpian Zhang1,  Tianyu Zheng1,  Qingmei Xu1,  Houhe Pan1,  Yuexing Zhang3,  Jianzhuang Jiang1( )
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory for Science and Application of Functional Molecular and Crystalline Materials, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Dezhou University, Dezhou 253023, China
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charge transfer, heterojunction, electrochemical CO2 reduction, in-situ X-ray absorption fine structure, flow cell
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Wang D, Sun T, Xu L, et al. Interfacial engineering of SnO2/Bi2O2CO3 heterojunction on heteroatoms-doped carbon for high-performance CO2 electroreduction to formate. Nano Research, 2023, 16(2): 2278-2285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5058-z
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction is a viable, economical, and sustainable method to transform atmospheric CO2 into carbon-based fuels and effectively reduce climate change and the energy crisis. Constructing robust catalysts through interface engineering is significant for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (ECR) but remains a grand challenge. Herein, SnO2/Bi2O2CO3 heterojunction on N,S-codoped-carbon (SnO2/BOC@NSC) with efficient ECR performance was firstly constructed by a facile synthetic strategy. When the SnO2/BOC@NSC was utilized in ECR, it exhibits a large formic acid (HCOOH) partial current density (JHCOOH) of 86.7 mA·cm−2 at −1.2 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and maximum Faradaic efficiency (FE) of HCOOH (90.75% at −1.2 V versus RHE), respectively. Notably, the FEHCOOH of SnO2/BOC@NSC is higher than 90% in the flow cell and the JHCOOH of SnO2/BOC@NSC can achieve 200 mA·cm−2 at −0.8 V versus RHE to meet the requirements of industrialization level. The comparative experimental analysis and in-situ X-ray absorption fine structure reveal that the excellent ECR performance can be ascribed to the synergistic effect of SnO2/BOC heterojunction, which enhances the activation of CO2 molecules and improves electron transfer. This work provides an efficient SnO2-based heterojunction catalyst for effective formate production and offers a novel approach for the construction of new types of metal oxide heterostructures for other catalytic applications.


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Interfacial engineering of SnO2/Bi2O2CO3 heterojunction on heteroatoms-doped carbon for high-performance CO2 electroreduction to formate

Show Author's information Danni Wang1, Tingting Sun1( ), Lianbin Xu2, Lei Gong1, Baotong Chen1( ), Pianpian Zhang1, Tianyu Zheng1, Qingmei Xu1, Houhe Pan1, Yuexing Zhang3, Jianzhuang Jiang1( )
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory for Science and Application of Functional Molecular and Crystalline Materials, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Dezhou University, Dezhou 253023, China

Abstract

Electrochemical CO2 reduction is a viable, economical, and sustainable method to transform atmospheric CO2 into carbon-based fuels and effectively reduce climate change and the energy crisis. Constructing robust catalysts through interface engineering is significant for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (ECR) but remains a grand challenge. Herein, SnO2/Bi2O2CO3 heterojunction on N,S-codoped-carbon (SnO2/BOC@NSC) with efficient ECR performance was firstly constructed by a facile synthetic strategy. When the SnO2/BOC@NSC was utilized in ECR, it exhibits a large formic acid (HCOOH) partial current density (JHCOOH) of 86.7 mA·cm−2 at −1.2 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and maximum Faradaic efficiency (FE) of HCOOH (90.75% at −1.2 V versus RHE), respectively. Notably, the FEHCOOH of SnO2/BOC@NSC is higher than 90% in the flow cell and the JHCOOH of SnO2/BOC@NSC can achieve 200 mA·cm−2 at −0.8 V versus RHE to meet the requirements of industrialization level. The comparative experimental analysis and in-situ X-ray absorption fine structure reveal that the excellent ECR performance can be ascribed to the synergistic effect of SnO2/BOC heterojunction, which enhances the activation of CO2 molecules and improves electron transfer. This work provides an efficient SnO2-based heterojunction catalyst for effective formate production and offers a novel approach for the construction of new types of metal oxide heterostructures for other catalytic applications.

Keywords: charge transfer, heterojunction, electrochemical CO2 reduction, in-situ X-ray absorption fine structure, flow cell

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Received: 04 August 2022
Revised: 10 September 2022
Accepted: 14 September 2022
Published: 22 October 2022
Issue date: February 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21631003 and 22001015), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2050205), and University of Science and Technology Beijing. The authors wish to thank the facility support of the 4B9A beamline of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF).

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