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Covalent Immobilization of a Molecular Catalyst on Cu2O Photocathodes for CO2 Reduction

Schreier, Marcel  
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Luo, Jingshan  
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Gao, Peng  
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2016
Journal Of The American Chemical Society

Sunlight-driven CO2 reduction is a promising way to close the anthropogenic carbon cycle. Integrating light harvester and electrocatalyst functions into a single photo electrode, which converts solar energy and CO2 directly into reduced carbon species, is under extensive investigation. The immobilization of rhenium-containing CO2 reduction catalysts on the surface of a protected Cu2O-based photocathode allows for the design of a photofunctional unit combining the advantages of molecular catalysts with inorganic photo absorbers. To achieve large current densities, a nanostructured TiO2 scaffold, processed at low temperature, was deposited on the surface of protected Cu2O photocathodes. This led to a 40-fold enhancement of the catalytic photocurrent as compared to planar devices, resulting in the sunlight-driven evolution of CO at large current densities and with high selectivity. Potentiodynamic and spectroelectrochemical measurements point toward a similar mechanism for the catalyst in the bound and unbound form, whereas no significant production of CO was observed from the scaffold in the absence of a molecular catalyst.

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DOI
10.1021/jacs.5b12157
Web of Science ID

WOS:000370582900038

Author(s)
Schreier, Marcel  
Luo, Jingshan  
Gao, Peng  
Moehl, Thomas  
Mayer, Matthew T.  
Graetzel, Michael  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Published in
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
Volume

138

Issue

6

Start page

1938

End page

1946

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REVIEWED

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April 1, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/125337
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