Nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped high-surface-area hollow carbon nanospheres for efficient CO2 reduction

doi:10.1016/S1872-2067(19)63485-6

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Abstract: The electrochemical reduction of CO₂ (CO₂RR) can substantially contribute to the production of useful chemicals and reduction of global CO₂ emissions. Herein, we presented N and S dual-doped high-surface-area carbon materials (SZ-HCN) as CO₂RR catalysts. N and S were doped by one-step pyrolysis of a N-containing polymer and S powder. ZnCl₂ was applied as a volatile porogen to prepare porous SZ-HCN. SZ-HCN with a high specific surface area (1510 m² g^-1) exhibited efficient electrocatalytic activity and selectivity for CO₂RR. Electrochemical measurements demonstrated that SZ-HCN showed excellent catalytic performance for CO₂-to-CO reduction with a high CO Faradaic efficiency (~93%) at -0.6 V. Furthermore, SZ-HCN offered a stable current density and high CO selectivity over at least 20 h continuous operation, revealing remarkable electrocatalytic durability. The experimental results and density functional theory calculations indicated that N and S dual-doped carbon materials required lower Gibbs free energy to form the COOH* intermediate than that for single-N-doped carbon for CO₂-to-CO reduction, thereby enhancing CO₂RR activity.

Key words: High specific surface area, Hollow structure, Carbon-based catalysts, CO₂ reduction reaction, Electrocatalytic selectivity

Guodong Li, Yongjie Qin, Yu Wu, Lei Pei, Qi Hu, Hengpan Yang, Qianling Zhang, Jianhong Liu, Chuanxin He. Nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped high-surface-area hollow carbon nanospheres for efficient CO₂ reduction[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2020, 41(5): 830-838.

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