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Hierarchical hollow metal nanostructure arrays for selective CO2 conversion

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posted on 2024-06-06, 00:40 authored by JW Maina, Jenny PringleJenny Pringle, Joselito RazalJoselito Razal, S Aslanoglou, Roey ElnathanRoey Elnathan, NH Voelcker, LF Dumée
Metal hollow nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications in energy storage and conversion, owing to their low density, high surface to volume ratio, and high contact surface area. However, the fabrication of such nanostructures remains challenging to date, with most fabrication routes only limited to specific materials. Herein, a universal templating strategy for fabricating hierarchical and aligned arrays of hollow metal nanostructures, from a variety of metallic materials including Cu, Ag, Ni and Pd, is reported. By using copper as a representative material, it is demonstrated that these nanostructures exhibit an enhanced electrocatalytic activity for CO2 conversion, with the Cu nanostructures producing more than 205% and 183% higher yield for CO and H2 respectively, compared to non-nanostructured plain copper films at an applied potential of -2.4 V vs. Ag/AgCl. This work opens up a new route for fabricating hollow nanostructures with tailored metal compositions for energy storage and conversion applications.

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Journal

Materials Advances

Volume

3

Pagination

2456-2463

Location

Cambridge, Eng.

Open access

  • Yes

eISSN

2633-5409

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

5

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

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