Valence state of transition metal center as an activity descriptor for CO2 reduction on single atom catalysts

doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2020.08.023

Journal of Energy Chemistry

Volume 56, May 2021, Pages 444-448

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The catalytic activities of TM atoms decorated Ti₂CO₂ towards CRR are investigated.
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Three single atom catalysts are selected as promising electrocatalysts for CRR.
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The valence state of TM atoms can be used as a descriptor to evaluate the catalytic activity.

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We found three excellent CO₂ conversion single-atom catalysts and a simple but effective descriptor to describe the trend in catalytic activity by first principle calculations.

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Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Soft Science Research Project of Guangdong Province (No. 2017B030301013) and Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Grant (ZDSYS201707281026184).

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LetterValence state of transition metal center as an activity descriptor for CO2 reduction on single atom catalysts

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Graphical abstract

Section snippets

Declaration of Competing Interest

Acknowledgments

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Valence state of transition metal center as an activity descriptor for CO₂ reduction on single atom catalysts