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Selective electroreduction of CO2 to C2+ products on cobalt decorated copper catalysts

Cu-catalyzed electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to multi-carbon (C2+) products is often plagued by low selectivity because the adsorption energies of different reaction intermediates are in a linear scaling relationship. Development of Cu-based ...

2024

Support-Dependent Cu-In Bimetallic Catalysts for Tailoring the Activity of Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction

Thi Ha My Pham, Wen Luo, Kun Zhao, Mo Li, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Cu-based bimetallic catalysts have attracted great attention for the reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reaction due to their high activity and selectivity. This work reports the application of Cu-In bimetallic catalysts for the RWGS reaction and demonstrates ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Monocarborane cluster as a stable fluorine-free calcium battery electrolyte

Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao

High-energy-density and low-cost calcium (Ca) batteries have been proposed as 'beyond-Li-ion' electrochemical energy storage devices. However, they have seen limited progress due to challenges associated with developing electrolytes showing reductive/oxida ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Hydrogen Storage by Reduction of CO2 to Synthetic Hydrocarbons

Andreas Züttel, Noris André Gallandat, Wen Luo, Jie Zhang, Kun Zhao

The storage of renewable energy is crucial for the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable energy. Hydrogen is the first step in the conversion of electricity from renewable sources to an energy carrier. However, hydrogen is technically and economicall ...

2021

Direct CO2 Capture and Reduction to High-End Chemicals with Tetraalkylammonium Borohydrides

Andreas Züttel, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Kun Zhao, Heena Yang, Youngdon Ko

We demonstrate the ability of tetraalkylammonium borohydrides to capture large amounts of CO2, even at low CO2 concentrations, and reduce it to formate under ambient conditions. These materials show CO2 absorption capacities up to 30 mmolCO2 g(-1) at room ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Mechanisms of the Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reaction of CO2 Hydrogenation on Transition Metal Surfaces

Kun Zhao

Renewable energy supply and energy storage in a closed materials cycle are the urgent global challenges of the 21st century. Carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation over catalysts is a method to produce synthetic fuels from renewable energy in a CO2 neutral cyc ...

EPFL2020

CO2 Hydrogenation over Unsupported Fe-Co Nanoalloy Catalysts

Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Marco Calizzi, Nicola Patelli

The thermo-catalytic synthesis of hydrocarbons from CO2 and H2 is of great interest for the conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals and fuels. In this work, we aim to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the effect of alloying on the reaction y ...

2020

Electrochemical reconstruction of ZnO for selective reduction of CO2 to CO

Andreas Züttel, Emanuele Moioli, Wen Luo, Kun Zhao, Jie Zhang, Qin Zhang

Electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to valuable chemicals is a highly promising route to close the carbon cycle. Herein, Zn catalysts derived from electrochemical reconstruction of ZnO materials are presented as efficient CO2-to-CO catalysts. We found that ...

2020

Imaging Catalysis: Operando Investigation of the CO2 Hydrogenation Reaction Dynamics by Means of Infrared Thermography

Andreas Züttel, Emad Oveisi, Emanuele Moioli, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Kun Zhao, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler

Infrared thermography is a powerful tool to investigate the dynamic evolution of temperature in chemical reactions. The CO2 hydrogenation reaction is an ideal model reaction to assess the presented technique due to its high exothermicity. Various dynamic e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Solvent- and Catalyst-Free Carbon Dioxide Capture and Reduction to Formate with Borohydride Ionic Liquid

Paul Joseph Dyson, Andreas Züttel, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Kun Zhao, Heena Yang

The Cover Feature shows the application of a pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid with a borohydride anion to simultaneously capture and reduce large amounts of CO2. The ionic liquid cation interacts with CO2, allowing the borohydride to fix and reduce it to t ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020