Oxygen-modulated engineering of Cu0–Cu+ interfaces for CO2-to-C2H4 photoreduction
Yuqi Ren, Miao Cheng, Hongbin He, Changjun You, Lunbo Duan, Zhenkun Sun, Ruoxuan Peng, Yuan-Hao Zhu, Hongyang Zhang, Jiancheng Zhou, Kai Huang, Jie Guan, Naixu Li · 2025
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Yuqi Ren and co-authors design a sunlight catalyst that turns carbon dioxide into ethylene in a 2025 paper. Making fuel-like chemicals from CO2 is a dream of artificial photosynthesis, but oxygen in the mix poisons most catalysts and two-carbon products form slowly.
Their catalyst pairs ruthenium and copper specks on ceria, a support that helps split water. Heat and light let oxygen rebuild the copper surface into paired sites with a charge slope, which grip key middle compounds better. That grip steers the chemistry from one-carbon products toward ethylene, a prized building block. Tests under working conditions confirmed the shift, a step toward solar fuels that tolerate real air-like gas mixes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuqi Ren, Miao Cheng, Hongbin He, Changjun You, Lunbo Duan, Zhenkun Sun, Ruoxuan Peng, Yuan-Hao Zhu, Hongyang Zhang, Jiancheng Zhou, Kai Huang, Jie Guan, Naixu Li |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 87 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |