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Impact of Surface Composition Changes on the CO-Reduction Performance of Au-Cu Aerogels. | LitMetric

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  • The electrochemical CO-reduction reaction (CORR) is gaining traction for energy storage and producing valuable industrial materials like carbon monoxide (CO).
  • Recent findings show that Au-Cu bimetallic nanocatalysts excel in converting CO compared to single-metal catalysts, enhancing the use of noble metals.
  • This study explores the performance of AuCu and AuCu aerogels as CO-reduction electrocatalysts, demonstrating that modifying their copper content using cyclic voltammetry significantly improves their efficiency and current outputs.

Article Abstract

Over the past decades, the electrochemical CO-reduction reaction (CORR) has emerged as a promising option for facilitating intermittent energy storage while generating industrial raw materials of economic relevance such as CO. Recent studies have reported that Au-Cu bimetallic nanocatalysts feature a superior CO-to-CO conversion as compared with the monometallic components, thus improving the noble metal utilization. Under this premise and with the added advantage of a suppressed H-evolution reaction due to absence of a carbon support, herein, we employ bimetallic AuCu and AuCu aerogels (with a web thickness ≈7 nm) as CO-reduction electrocatalysts in 0.5 M KHCO and compare their performance with that of a monometallic Au aerogel. We supplement this by investigating how the CORR-performance of these materials is affected by their surface composition, which we modified by systematically dissolving a part of their Cu-content using cyclic voltammetry (CV). To this end, the effect of this CV-driven composition change on the electrochemical surface area is quantified via Pb underpotential deposition, and the local structural and compositional changes are visually assessed by employing identical-location transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray analyses. When compared to the pristine aerogels, the CV-treated samples displayed superior CO Faradaic efficiencies (≈68 vs ≈92% for AuCu and ≈34 vs ≈87% for AuCu) and CO partial currents, with the AuCu aerogel outperforming the AuCu and Au counterparts in terms of Au-mass normalized CO currents among the CV-treated samples.

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