Enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction via field-induced reagent concentration

Nature

Volumn 537, Issue 7620, 2016, Pages 382-386

  Liu, Min ^a   Pang, Yuanjie ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a,b   De Luna, Phil ^a   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^a   Xu, Jixian ^a   Zheng, Xueli ^a,c   Dinh, Cao Thang ^a   Fan, Fengjia ^a   Cao, Changhong ^a   De Arquer, F Pelayo García ^a   Safaei, Tina Saberi ^a   Mepham, Adam ^d   Klinkova, Anna ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^a   Filleter, Tobin ^a   Sinton, David ^a   Kelley, Shana O ^a,d,e   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOROD; REAGENT;

ADSORPTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCATALYST; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FIELD INDUCED REAGENT CONCENTRATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84984646264     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature19060     Document Type: Article

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