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Vol. 13 (2021)

Defect Engineering on Carbon-Based Catalysts for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00538-7
Dongping Xue
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
Huicong Xia
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
Wenfu Yan
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, and College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Jianan Zhang
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, People’s Republic of China
Shichun Mu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Jianan Zhang

zjn@zzu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 13 (2021), Article Number: 5

Abstract

Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction (ECR) has become one of the main methods to close the broken carbon cycle and temporarily store renewable energy, but there are still some problems such as poor stability, low activity, and selectivity. While the most promising strategy to improve ECR activity is to develop electrocatalysts with low cost, high activity, and long-term stability. Recently, defective carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted extensive attention due to the unbalanced electron distribution and electronic structural distortion caused by the defects on the carbon materials. Here, the present review mainly summarizes the latest research progress of the construction of the diverse types of defects (intrinsic carbon defects, heteroatom doping defects, metal atomic sites, and edges detects) for carbon materials in ECR, and unveil the structure–activity relationship and its catalytic mechanism. The current challenges and opportunities faced by high-performance carbon materials in ECR are discussed, as well as possible future solutions. It can be believed that this review can provide some inspiration for the future of development of high-performance ECR catalysts.


Highlights:


1 The main construction methods of carbon-based nanomaterials (CBN) with different defects are systematically introduced.
2 The structure–activity relationship of defective carbon-based catalysts in electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (ECR) reaction is mainly reviewed.
3 Challenges and opportunities of high-performance defective CBN in ECR and the possible solutions in the future are discussed.

Keywords

Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction Carbon-based nanomaterials Intrinsic defects Heteroatom doping defects Metal atomic sites
Xue, Dongping, Huicong Xia, Wenfu Yan, Jianan Zhang, and Shichun Mu. 2020. “Defect Engineering on Carbon-Based Catalysts for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction”. Nano-Micro Letters 13 (October):5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00538-7.
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