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In situ spectroelectrochemical probing of CO redox landscape on copper single-crystal surfaces
State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, China;Department of Physics and Astronomy, National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK;Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3879-5884
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore.
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore;Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117574, Singapore.
Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9717-2527
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2022 (English)In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, E-ISSN 1091-6490, Vol. 119, no 29Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Electrochemical reduction of CO(2) to value-added chemicals and fuels is a promising strategy to sustain pressing renewable energy demands and to address climate change issues. Direct observation of reaction intermediates during the CO(2) reduction reaction will contribute to mechanistic understandings and thus promote the design of catalysts with the desired activity, selectivity, and stability. Herein, we combined in situ electrochemical shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics calculations to investigate the CORR process on Cu single-crystal surfaces in various electrolytes. Competing redox pathways and coexistent intermediates of CO adsorption (*COatop and *CObridge), dimerization (protonated dimer *HOCCOH and its dehydrated *CCO), oxidation (*CO2− and *CO32−), and hydrogenation (*CHO), as well as Cu-Oad/Cu-OHad species at Cu-electrolyte interfaces, were simultaneously identified using in situ spectroscopy and further confirmed with isotope-labeling experiments. With AIMD simulations, we report accurate vibrational frequency assignments of these intermediates based on the calculated vibrational density of states and reveal the corresponding species in the electrochemical CO redox landscape on Cu surfaces. Our findings provide direct insights into key intermediates during the CO(2)RR and offer a full-spectroscopic tool (40–4,000 cm−1) for future mechanistic studies.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2022. Vol. 119, no 29
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-486069DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2118166119ISI: 000853684000014PubMedID: 35858341OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-486069DiVA, id: diva2:1700421
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