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Suppressing H2 Evolution and Promoting Selective CO2 Electroreduction to CO at Low Overpotentials by Alloying Au with Pd

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CO2 electroreduction is a promising technology to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. Polycrystalline and nanostructured metals have been tested extensively while less effort has been spent on understanding… Click to show full abstract

CO2 electroreduction is a promising technology to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. Polycrystalline and nanostructured metals have been tested extensively while less effort has been spent on understanding the performance of bimetallic alloys. In this work, we study compositionally variant, smooth Au–Pd thin film alloys to discard any morphological or mesoscopic effect on the electrocatalytic performance. We find that the onset potential of CO formation exhibits a strong dependence on the Pd content of the alloys. Strikingly, palladium, a hydrogen evolution catalyst with reasonable exchange current density, suppresses hydrogen evolution when alloyed with gold in the presence of CO2. Cyclic voltammetry, in situ surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy, and potential-dependent online product analysis strongly suggest that by alloying Au with Pd a significant increase in the surface coverage of adsorbed CO occurs with increasing Pd content at low overpotentials (e.g., approximatel...

Keywords: co2 electroreduction; suppressing evolution; low overpotentials; evolution; evolution promoting

Journal Title: ACS Catalysis
Year Published: 2019

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