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Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials for Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction
Author(s) -
Yang Chenhuai,
Li Shuyu,
Zhang Zhicheng,
Wang Haiqing,
Liu Huiling,
Jiao Fei,
Guo Zhenguo,
Zhang Xiaotao,
Hu Wenping
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.202001847
Subject(s) - nanomaterials , overpotential , nanotechnology , materials science , catalysis , electrochemistry , faraday efficiency , bottleneck , chemistry , electrode , computer science , organic chemistry , embedded system
Electrochemical CO 2 reduction (ECR) to value‐added chemicals and fuels is regarded as an effective strategy to mitigate climate change caused by CO 2 from excess consumption of fossil fuels. To achieve CO 2 conversion with high faradaic efficiency, low overpotential, and excellent product selectivity, rational design and synthesis of efficient electrocatalysts is of significant importance, which dominates the development of ECR field. Individual organic molecules or inorganic catalysts have encountered a bottleneck in performance improvement owing to their intrinsic shortcomings. Very recently, organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials as electrocatalysts have exhibited high performance and interesting reaction processes for ECR due to the integration of the advantages of both heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic processes, attracting widespread interest. In this work, the recent advances in designing various organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials at the atomic and molecular level for ECR are systematically summarized. Particularly, the reaction mechanism and structure–performance relationship of organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials toward ECR are discussed in detail. Finally, the challenges and opportunities toward controlled synthesis of advanced electrocatalysts are proposed for paving the development of the ECR field.