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Currently, with the proposal of the dual‑carbon goal, the conversion of carbon dioxide has become a hot topic. Electro-catalysis occupies a prominent position in various catalytic technologies. Carbon dioxide reduction to C2 product or C2+ product is of great importance to the deep utilization of carbon dioxide. However, it is prone to disadvantages such as slow speed, low selectivity, and high over potential toward C2+ products. Here, a neighboring strong weak metal atom pair strategy is proposed to design a new bimetallic catalyst aiming at significantly reduce the over potential of C2+ products. The strong (Fe) and weak (cu) motif owns a negligible energy barrier of 0.06 eV from CO2 to surface adsorbed CO molecule. Afterwards, it significantly reduces the energy barrier of the CC coupling process to 0.48 eV and makes the limiting potential (LP) of the reduction to ethylene 0.28 eV and 0.49 eV to ethanol. The high efficiency of this neighboring strong weak metal atom pair strategy offers new guidance to the electro-catalysis of C1 compound to C2+ products
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