The poster was about the inculcation of cluster beam deposition (CBD) technology to produce novel electrocatalysts which can increase the selectivity of electrochemical CO2 conversion to C2+ products. As CBD is a versatile technique that allows the deposition of virtually any type of well-defined cluster on a large variety of support, this work provides an attractive avenue to achieve stable, selective multicarbon products via rational electrode design.
This work mainly focuses on mesoporous oxygen-rich copper hollow spheres prepared by a colloid templating method, whose surface is uniformly modified by the deposition of different loadings of well-defined Pd clusters of ca. 3 nm diameter using the laser ablation cluster beam deposition (CBD) technology.
Primary electrochemical results show that these electrodes can reduce CO2 to ethylene with a faradaic efficiency of more than three times higher than that of commercial Cu2O nanoparticles under the same reaction conditions.
