Zihao Huang, Mingwei Fang, Xiaochen Feng, Meiling Wang, Wenxiu Jiang, Zewen Wang, Rong Zhang, Ying Zhu, Lei Jiang
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摘要
二氧化碳电还原成多碳(C2+)产品为化工生产提供了一条可持续的途径。然而,竞争的析氢反应(HER),特别是在质子输移占主导地位的高电流密度下,仍然是实现高C2+选择性的主要挑战。在这项研究中,一个由氢键引导的界面水工程策略被报道构建了一个双功能的Cu基催化剂,同时提高了C2+的选择性和抑制HER。通过将四胺化酞菁钴(CoTAPc)和全氟磺酸(PFSA)共组装到Cu表面,形成了疏水、富氢键的微环境。这个界面网络将水分子重组成空间受限的簇,使质子定向传输和加速水解离成为可能。这种CO2可用性和质子动力学的双重调制有效地从HER中解耦C─C耦合,导致选择性的C2+形成。在1.1 a cm−2下,CoTAPc/Cu催化剂的C2+法拉第效率(FE)为90.7%,H2 FE仅为3.5%。此外,在100 cm2的膜电极组件(MEA)电解槽中,它在30 A时保持81%的C2+选择性。Operando光谱分析和密度泛函理论(DFT)计算表明,CoTAPc - PFSA界面降低了*CO二聚化势垒,同时促进水解离和增加*H吸附能,从而抑制HER并实现有效的CO2转化。
Hydrogen‐Bonding‐Guided Interfacial Water Engineering for Selective CO2‐to‐C2+ Conversion at Industrial Current Densities
The electroreduction of CO2 to multi‐carbon (C2+) products offers a sustainable route for chemicals production. However, the competing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), especially at high current densities where proton transport dominates, remains a major challenge to achieving high C2+ selectivity. In this study, an interfacial water engineering strategy guided by hydrogen bonding is reported to construct a dual‐functional Cu‐based catalyst that simultaneously enhances C2+ selectivity and suppresses HER. By co‐assembling cobalt tetraaminated phthalocyanine (CoTAPc) and perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) onto Cu surface, a hydrophobic, hydrogen‐bond‐rich microenvironment is formed. This interfacial network reorganizes water molecules into spatially confined clusters, enabling directional proton transport and accelerating water dissociation. Such dual modulation of CO2 availability and proton dynamic effectively decouples C─C coupling from HER, leading to selective C2+ formation. The resulting CoTAPc/Cu catalyst exhibits a C2+ Faraday efficiency (FE) of 90.7% with only 3.5% H2 FE at 1.1 A cm−2. Moreover, it maintains 81% C2+ selectivity at 30 A in a 100 cm2 membrane electrode assembly (MEA) electrolyzer. Operando spectroscopic analyses and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that CoTAPc‐PFSA interface lowers the *CO dimerization barrier while facilitating water dissociation and increasing *H adsorption energy, thus suppressing HER and enabling efficient CO2 conversion.
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