Promoting CO2 methanation via ligand-stabilized metal oxide clusters as hydrogen-donating motifs

Electroreduction uses renewable energy to upgrade carbon dioxide to value-added chemicals and fuels. Here, the authors design a suite of ligand-stabilized metal oxide clusters to modulate the reduction pathways on a copper catalyst, enabling record activity for CO2-to-methane conversion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuhang Li, Aoni Xu, Yanwei Lum, Xue Wang, Sung-Fu Hung, Bin Chen, Ziyun Wang, Yi Xu, Fengwang Li, Jehad Abed, Jianan Erick Huang, Armin Sedighian Rasouli, Joshua Wicks, Laxmi Kishore Sagar, Tao Peng, Alexander H. Ip, David Sinton, Hao Jiang, Chunzhong Li, Edward H. Sargent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20004-7