Research reveals the "dual channel" mechanism of highly selective electroreduction of carbon dioxide

Recently, the team of Xiao Jianping, a researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the team of Professor Xia Chuan from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and the team of Professor Zeng Jie from the University of Science and Technology of China have made new progress in the research of carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) conversion, and developed a lead single-atom alloying The copper-based catalyst (Pb ₁ Cu) realizes the high activity and high selectivity reduction of CO ₂ to prepare formate, and the theoretical mechanism of the process is explored

The use of renewable energy for CO ₂ electric reduction is one of the means to achieve the "dual carbon" goal

Xiao Jianping's team established a "dual channel" two-dimensional reaction phase diagram to simulate the change in the activity trend of CO ₂ reduction on the surface of different catalysts

Relevant research results, titled Copper-catalysed Exclusive CO ₂ to Pure Formic Acid Conversion via Single-atom Alloying, were recently published in "Nature Nanotechnology"

The two-vertex one-dimensional (a) and two-dimensional (b) "reaction phase diagrams" for the preparation of formate by CO ₂ electroreduction