Molecular tunability of surface-functionalized metal nanocrystals for selective electrochemical CO₂ reduction

DOI:

10.1039/c9sc04439f

Authors:

James R. Pankhurst, Yannick T. Guntern, Mounir Mensi, Raffaella Buonsanti

Abstract:

Disubstituted imidazolium compounds are used as ligands to promote the CO₂RR at the surface of Ag nanocrystal catalysts. Catalyst performance is fine-tuned at the molecular scale through systematic variation of the imidazolium substituents.