Co3O4尖晶石是具有前景的價(jià)格合理選擇性硝酸鹽制備NH3電催化劑,但是目前Co3O4的催化活性仍難以讓人滿意,而且人們對(duì)于Co3O4的催化反應(yīng)機(jī)理并不清楚。
有鑒于此,深圳大學(xué)何傳新等發(fā)現(xiàn)Co3O4在電催化還原NO3-的反應(yīng)活性與Co位點(diǎn)的幾何結(jié)構(gòu)密切相關(guān),NO3-電催化還原反應(yīng)在八面體位點(diǎn)(Cooh)比四面體位點(diǎn)(OTd)更容易發(fā)生。而且,在電催化反應(yīng)中,伴隨著生成氧缺陷,CoOhO6能夠轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)镃oOhO5。優(yōu)化結(jié)構(gòu)的(Cu0.6Co0.4)Co2O4實(shí)現(xiàn)了優(yōu)異的電催化還原硝酸鹽性能。
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Qi Hu, Shuai Qi, Qihua Huo, Yuxin Zhao, Jianju Sun, Xinbao Chen, Miaoyuan Lv, Weiliang Zhou, Chao Feng, Xiaoyan Chai, Hengpan Yang, and Chuanxin He*, Designing Efficient Nitrate Reduction Electrocatalysts by Identifying and Optimizing Active Sites of Co-Based Spinels, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06904
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c06904