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Sheng Chu, Pengfei Ou, Roksana Tonny Rashid, Yuyang Pan, Daolun Liang, Huiyan Zhang, Jun Song, Zetian Mi. Efficient photoelectrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas by photocathode engineering. Green Energy&Environment, 2022, 7(3): 545-553. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2020.11.015
Citation: Sheng Chu, Pengfei Ou, Roksana Tonny Rashid, Yuyang Pan, Daolun Liang, Huiyan Zhang, Jun Song, Zetian Mi. Efficient photoelectrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas by photocathode engineering. Green Energy&Environment, 2022, 7(3): 545-553. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2020.11.015
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Efficient photoelectrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas by photocathode engineering

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2020.11.015

  • a Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China;

  • b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada;

  • c Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0C5, Canada;

  • d Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22005048, 51822604, 51906040), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grants No BK20200399), Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), McGill Engineering Doctoral Award, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery grant (grant # RGPIN-2017-05187). We are also grateful for Supercomputer Consortium Laval UQAM McGill and Eastern Quebec for providing computing power. Sheng Chu would like to thank the support from “Zhishan Young Scholar” Program of Southeast University.

  • Received date 16 August 2020, Accepted date 18 November 2020, RevRecd date 20 October 2020, Publish date 21 November 2020,
    Abstract
  • The synthesis of renewable chemical fuels from CO2 and H2O via photoelectrochemical (PEC) route reprensents a promising room-temperature approach for transforming greenhouse gas into value-added chemicals (e.g., syngas), but to date it has been hampered by the lack of efficient photocathode for CO2 reduction. Herein, we report efficient PEC CO2 reduction into syngas by photocathode engineering. The photocathode is consisting of a planar p-n Si junction for strong light harvesting, GaN nanowires for efficient electron extraction and transfer, and Au/TiO2 for rapid electrocatalytic syngas production. The photocathode yields a record-high solar energy conversion efficiency of 2.3%. Furthermore, desirable syngas compositions with CO/H2 ratios such as 1:2 and 1:1 can be produced by simply varying the size of Au nanoparticle. Theoretical calculations reveal that the active sites for CO and H2 generation are the facet and undercoordinated sites of Au particles, respectively.

     

    • S. Chu and P. Ou contributed equally to this work.
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