Cu-Ni alloy nanocrystals with heterogenous active sites for efficient urea synthesis

Yulong Zhou; Baopeng Yang; Zhencong Huang; Gen Chen; Jianguo Tang; Min Liu; Xiaohe Liu; Renzhi Ma; Zongwei Mei; Ning Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123577

ジャーナル論文 Cu-Ni alloy nanocrystals with heterogenous active sites for efficient urea synthesis

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Yulong Zhou, Baopeng Yang, Zhencong Huang, Gen Chen, Jianguo Tang, Min Liu, Xiaohe Liu, Renzhi Ma, Zongwei Mei, Ning Zhang. Cu-Ni alloy nanocrystals with heterogenous active sites for efficient urea synthesis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 2023, 343 (), 123577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123577

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Electrocatalytic urea synthesis from CO2 and NO3- are environmental green and energy savable. Although Cu are effective for CO2 and NO3- reduction reactions, achieving high efficiency of urea production remains challenging. Herein, Cu-Ni nanocrystals are formed to provide heterogenous active sites for promoting hydrogenation and C-N coupling reactions in urea synthesis. The carbon supported Cu-Ni nanocrystals are characterized by extended X-ray absorption fine structure and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy spectra. The Cu-Ni nanocrystals achieves the highest urea Faradaic efficiency of 25.1 % and urea yield of 22.01 μmol h-1 cm-1, which is much higher than that of single Cu or Ni metal. The reaction mechanism is probed by in-situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, revealing a C-N coupling reaction pathway between *CO and *NH2. Theoretical calculations suggest that hydrogenation of *NOx and coupling *CO with *NH2 are more easily occurred over co-existed Cu and Ni sites rather than homogeneous Cu or Ni site.

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