Dynamically Stabilizing Oxygen Atoms in Silver Catalyst for Highly Selective and Durable CO Reduction Reaction.

Oxide derived catalyst displays outstanding catalytic activity and selectivity in electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CORR), in which, it is found that residue oxygen atoms play a pivotal role in regulating the catalyst's electronic structure and thus the CORR process. Unfortunately, the intrinsic thermodynamic instability of oxygen atoms in oxide derived catalyst under cathodic CORR potentials makes it unstable during continuous electrolysis, greatly hindering its practical industrial applications. In this work, we develop a pulsed-bias technique that is able to dynamically stabilize the residue oxygen atoms in oxide derived catalyst during electrochemical CORR.