@article{Sui2024, 
author = {Rui Sui and Bingyan Wang and Yongsheng Wang and Jiajing Pei and Wei Zhu and Wenxing Chen and Chunhui Li and Ailing Sun and Zhongbin Zhuang},
title = {A general and facile calcination method to synthesize single-site catalysts for highly efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction},
year = {2024},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {17},
number = {5},
pages = {3895-3901},
keywords = {nickel, single atom catalyst, CO2 reduction reaction, CO production, electrocatalyst},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-023-6378-3},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-023-6378-3},
abstract = {The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) has received widespread attention as a promising method for producing sustainable chemicals and mitigating the global warming. Here, we demonstrate a general and facile synthetic route for the metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) type catalyst by simply calcinating metal acetate and urea with commercial carbon black, which have potential application in CO2RR. The synthesized Ni-NC-600 catalyst has the structure of single Ni atom coordinated with one N atom and three C atoms (Ni-N1C3), which is suggested by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The Ni-NC-600 catalyst exhibits high CO2RR catalytic performance and a high CO Faraday efficiency above 98% in a wide potential range from −0.7 to −1.3 V (vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE)), superior to most of the reported Ni-N-C catalysts. This work has developed a facile strategy to synthesize high performance CO2RR catalyst.}
}