Yuanjie Pang

TL;DR: A copper electrocatalyst at an abrupt reaction interface in an alkaline electrolyte reduces CO2 to ethylene with 70% faradaic efficiency at a potential of −0.55 volts versus a reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE).

TL;DR: It is reported that nanostructured electrodes produce, at low applied overpotentials, local high electric fields that concentrate electrolyte cations, which leads to a high local concentration of CO2 close to the active CO2 reduction reaction surface, which surpasses by an order of magnitude the performance of the best gold nanorods, nanoparticles and oxide-derived noble metal catalysts.

TL;DR: Computational studies suggest that the Cu-Al alloys provide multiple sites and surface orientations with near-optimal CO binding for both efficient and selective CO2 reduction, and in situ X-ray absorption measurements reveal that Cu and Al enable a favourable Cu coordination environment that enhances C–C dimerization.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach in which the target particle itself plays an active part now achieves this using a lower light intensity, which means that heat-sensitive targets such as viruses could be manipulated directly.

TL;DR: In this paper, a class of core-shell vacancy engineering catalysts that utilize sulfur atoms in the nanoparticle core and copper vacancies in the shell to achieve efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to propanol and ethanol was proposed.