Niobium Nitride Catalyst for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2

doi:10.7517/issn.1674-0475.181208

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Abstract: Converting CO₂ to CO by electrochemical method is considered as an economic and friendly strategy to solve problems of resource and environment. In this work, precursor of niobium/carbon was prepared by wet chemical method and converted into Nb₄N₅/C and Nb₂O₅/C after calcination under NH₃ and Ar respectively. When the nitriding temperature reaches to 700℃, prepared Nb₄N₅/C exhibits excellent catalytic activity with CO Faradaic efficiency of 57% at -0.83 V vs RHE in CO₂ saturated 0.5 mol·L^-1 NaCl solution. The results show that the catalytic activity of Nb₄N₅/C is related to the N doping in Nb₄N₅.

Key words: niobium nitride, electrocatalysis, CO₂ reduction, CO

LI Wenting, HOU Pengfei, KANG Peng. Niobium Nitride Catalyst for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂[J]. Imaging Science and Photochemistry, 2019, 37(2): 107-117.

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