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NiO@Ni nanoparticles embedded in N-doped carbon for efficient photothermal CO2 methanation coupled with H2O splitting

Show Author's Information Yun Zhou1,§,  Peng Zheng2,3,§,  Fang Wang4( ),  Fangna Gu5( ),  Wenqing Xu1( ),  Qinyang Lu6,  Tingyu Zhu1,  Ziyi Zhong7,8,  Guangwen Xu2,3,  Fabing Su1,3( )
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Key Laboratory on Resources Chemicals and Materials of Ministry of Education, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
Institute of Industrial Chemistry and Energy Technology, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
School of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Enze Biomass Fine Chemicals, College of New Materials and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
International School of Beijing 10 An Hua Street, Shunyi District, Beijing 100048, China
Department of Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou 515063, China
Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Haifa, 32000, Israel

§ Yun Zhou and Peng Zheng contributed equally to this work.

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localized surface plasmon resonance, photothermal, Ni, methanation
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Photothermal carbon dioxide (CO2) methanation has attracted increasing interest in solar fuel synthesis, which employs the advantages of photocatalytic H2O splitting as a hydrogen source and photothermal catalytic CO2 reduction. This work prepared three-dimensional (3D) honeycomb N-doped carbon (NC) loaded with core–shell NiO@Ni nanoparticles generated in situ at 500 °C (NiO@Ni/NC-500). Under the photothermal catalysis (200 °C, 1.5 W/cm2), the CH4 evolution rate of NiO@Ni/NC-500 reached 5.5 mmol/(g·h), which is much higher than that of the photocatalysis (0.8 mmol/(g·h)) and the thermal catalysis (3.7 mmol/(g·h)). It is found that the generated localized surface plasmon resonance enhances the injection of hot electrons from Ni to NiO, while thermal heating accelerates the thermal motion of radicals, thus generating a strong photo-thermal synergistic effect on the reaction. The CO2 reduction to CH4 follows the *OCH pathway. This work demonstrates the synergistic effect of NiO@Ni and NC can enhance the catalytic performance of photothermal CO2 reduction reaction coupled with water splitting reaction.


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NiO@Ni nanoparticles embedded in N-doped carbon for efficient photothermal CO2 methanation coupled with H2O splitting

Show Author's information Yun Zhou1,§, Peng Zheng2,3,§, Fang Wang4( ), Fangna Gu5( ), Wenqing Xu1( ), Qinyang Lu6, Tingyu Zhu1, Ziyi Zhong7,8, Guangwen Xu2,3, Fabing Su1,3( )
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Key Laboratory on Resources Chemicals and Materials of Ministry of Education, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
Institute of Industrial Chemistry and Energy Technology, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
School of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Enze Biomass Fine Chemicals, College of New Materials and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
International School of Beijing 10 An Hua Street, Shunyi District, Beijing 100048, China
Department of Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou 515063, China
Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Haifa, 32000, Israel

§ Yun Zhou and Peng Zheng contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Photothermal carbon dioxide (CO2) methanation has attracted increasing interest in solar fuel synthesis, which employs the advantages of photocatalytic H2O splitting as a hydrogen source and photothermal catalytic CO2 reduction. This work prepared three-dimensional (3D) honeycomb N-doped carbon (NC) loaded with core–shell NiO@Ni nanoparticles generated in situ at 500 °C (NiO@Ni/NC-500). Under the photothermal catalysis (200 °C, 1.5 W/cm2), the CH4 evolution rate of NiO@Ni/NC-500 reached 5.5 mmol/(g·h), which is much higher than that of the photocatalysis (0.8 mmol/(g·h)) and the thermal catalysis (3.7 mmol/(g·h)). It is found that the generated localized surface plasmon resonance enhances the injection of hot electrons from Ni to NiO, while thermal heating accelerates the thermal motion of radicals, thus generating a strong photo-thermal synergistic effect on the reaction. The CO2 reduction to CH4 follows the *OCH pathway. This work demonstrates the synergistic effect of NiO@Ni and NC can enhance the catalytic performance of photothermal CO2 reduction reaction coupled with water splitting reaction.

Keywords: localized surface plasmon resonance, photothermal, Ni, methanation

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Received: 25 August 2023
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This research was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2022YFE0208100) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22278405, 52222005, and 22278006).

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