Recent advances in multilevel nickel-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for CO<sub>2</sub> electroreduction to CO

ZHANG Ya-fang; YU Chang; TAN Xin-yi; CUI Song; LI Wen-bin; QIU Jie-shan

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60002-1

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ZHANG Ya-fang, YU Chang, TAN Xin-yi, CUI Song, LI Wen-bin, QIU Jie-shan. Recent advances in multilevel nickel-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for CO2 electroreduction to CO. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(1): 19-33. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60002-1

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ZHANG Ya-fang, YU Chang, TAN Xin-yi, CUI Song, LI Wen-bin, QIU Jie-shan. Recent advances in multilevel nickel-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for CO₂ electroreduction to CO. New Carbon Mater., 2021, 36(1): 19-33. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60002-1

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Recent advances in multilevel nickel-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for CO₂ electroreduction to CO

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(21)60002-1

State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

Funds: The authors would like to offer special thanks to the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT19LAB20); the Talent Program of Rejuvenation of the Liaoning (XLYC1807002); and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51872035)

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ZHANG Ya-fang. E-mail: dutzhangyafang@163.com
Corresponding author: YU Chang, Ph.D, Professor. E-mail: chang.yu@dlut.edu.cn; QIU Jie-shan, Ph.D, Professor. E-mail: jqiu@dlut.edu.cn
Received Date: 2020-12-24
Rev Recd Date: 2020-12-31
Publish Date: 2021-02-01

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As an emerging CO₂ conversion technology, the electrochemical CO₂ reduction (ECR) reaction has received widespread attention. For the ECR process, the accurate and rational design of electrocatalysts is essential and significant for improving the catalytic performance. Carbon-based materials are considered one of the promising electrocatalysts for ECR because of their variety of abundant sources, high specific surface area, high porosity, and multilevel dimensionality and tunable active sites. Furthermore, doping by heteroatoms and introducing metal atoms in the frameworks or substrates of the carbon materials are effective strategies for further improving the ECR activity. Particularly, nickel-nitrogen-carbon (Ni-N-C) materials show excellent reactivities for the ECR to CO and have the potential for large-scale applications. We summarize the recent development of Ni-N-C catalysts with a multilevel structure for the ECR to CO and also the key principles and primary parameters of the ECR. Furthermore, the rational and precise design of multilevel Ni-N-C catalysts on different carbon frameworks or substrates is discussed and presented, especially including carbon quantum dots, one dimensional (1D) carbon-based materials, two dimensional (2D) carbon-based materials and nanoporous carbon-based materials. The effects of microstructure on ECR performance are also analyzed. Finally, the challenges and outlook for Ni-N-C catalysts in an ECR system are presented. This review provides some new insights and guidelines for rationally designing and preparing Ni-N-C catalysts with a multilevel structure and high performance.
- Electrochemical reduction of CO₂,
- CO,
- Multilevel structure,
- Carbon materials,
- Nickel-nitrogen-carbon catalysts

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