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Site-Specific Axial Oxygen Coordinated FeN4 Active Sites for Highly Selective Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide

Zhang, Ting
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Han, Xu
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Liu, Hong
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January 22, 2022
Advanced Functional Materials

Regulating the coordination environment via heteroatoms to break the symmetrical electronic structure of M-N-4 active sites provides a promising route to engineer metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction. However, it remains challenging to realize a site-specific introduction of heteroatoms at atomic level due to their energetically unstable nature. Here, this paper reports a facile route via using an oxygen- and nitrogen-rich metal-organic framework (MOF) (IRMOF-3) as the precursor to construct the Fe-O and Fe-N chelation, simultaneously, resulting in an atomically dispersed axial O-coordinated FeN4 active site. Compared to the FeN4 active sites without O coordination, the formed FeN4-O sites exhibit much better catalytic performance toward CO, reaching a maximum FECO of 95% at -0.50 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode. To the best of the authors' knowledge, such performance exceeds that of the existing Fe-N-C-based catalysts derived from sole N-rich MOFs. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the axial O-coordination regulates the binding energy of intermediates in the reaction pathways, resulting in a smoother desorption of CO and increased energy for the competitive hydrogen production.

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research article
DOI
10.1002/adfm.202111446
Web of Science ID

WOS:000745489000001

Author(s)
Zhang, Ting
Han, Xu
Liu, Hong
Biset-Peiro, Marti
Li, Jian  
Zhang, Xuan
Tang, Pengyi
Yang, Bo
Zheng, Lirong
Morante, Joan Ramon
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Date Issued

2022-01-22

Published in
Advanced Functional Materials
Article Number

2111446

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry, Physical

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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Physics

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co generation

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co

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(2) electroreduction

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fen

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(4)-o active sites

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metal-organic frameworks

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single atom catalysts

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metal-organic frameworks

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co2 reduction

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efficient electroreduction

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atom

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catalysts

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iron

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