Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 4
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Interests: CO2 and nitrogen electroreduction; surface property; metal cluster catalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
After the success of this first Special Issue, focused on “Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction”, available here, we propose the second edition, entitled “Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction, 2nd Edition”.
Due to global warming and fossil fuel demand, the utilization of CO2 in value-added products has attracted much attention. The electrochemical conversion of CO2 and H2O into alcohol, hydrocarbon, synthesis gas, etc., presents a potential approach under mild conditions using renewable electricity. It is a challenge to find an electrocatalysis process with a low cost that is efficient in energy transformation and product selection.
Due to the sluggish kinetics of CO2, high activation energy is needed to initiate CO2 electroreduction by forming the CO2•– intermediate, and thus the onset potential is significantly more negative than the equilibrium potential of CO2 reduction. Although the electroreduction of CO2 to high-energy-density fuels and value-added chemical feedstocks is promising, the large overpotential of this process and the low activity and durability of the currently available catalysts still restrict this technique in terms of its large-scale commercialization.
This Special Issue is focused on the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) in order to establish an efficient electrocatalysis process. Substantial efforts are focused on suppressing the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and activating CO2 through the catalyst’s design and improvements in technology.
Dr. Linping Qian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface modification
- metal morphology tuning
- metal doping
- metal alloying
- single-atom metal catalysis
- metal cluster catalysis
- site vacancy
- flow cell
- membrane electrode assembly
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