Surface Oxygen Injection in Tin Disulfide Nanosheets for Efficient -CO2 Electroreduction to Formate and Syngas

• 作者: Tao Chen Tong Liu Tao Ding Beibei Pang Lan Wang Xiaokang Liu Xinyi Shen Sicong Wang Dan Wu Dong Liu Linlin Cao Qiquan Luo Wei Zhang Wenkun Zhu Tao Yao
• 来源期刊: 纳微快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（11）
• 页码范围: 441-451
• 页数: 11页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Surface chemistry modification represents a promising strategy to tailor the adsorption and activation of reaction intermediates for enhancing activity. Herein, we designed a surface oxygen-injection strategy to tune the electronic structure of -SnS2 nanosheets, which showed effectively enhanced electrocatalytic activity and selectivity of -CO2 reduction to formate and syngas (CO and -H2). The oxygen-injection -SnS2 nanosheets exhibit a remarkable Faradaic efficiency of 91.6％ for carbonaceous products with a current density of 24.1 mA -cm?2 at ?0.9 V vs RHE, including 83.2％ for formate production and 16.5％ for syngas with the CO/H2 ratio of 1:1. By operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we unravel the in situ surface oxygen doping into the matrix during reaction, thereby optimizing the Sn local electronic states. Operando synchro tron radiation infrared spectroscopy along with theoretical calculations further reveals that the surface oxygen doping facilitated the -CO2 activation and enhanced the affinity for HCOO* species. This result demonstrates the potential strategy of surface oxygen injection for the rational design of advanced catalysts for -CO2 electroreduction.