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Abstract
The development of dual functional material for cyclic CO2 capture and hydrogenation is of great significance for converting diluted CO2 into valuable fuels, but suffers from kinetic limitation and deactivation of adsorbent and catalyst. Herein, we engineered a series of RuNa/γ-Al2O3 materials, varying the size of ruthenium from single atoms to clusters/nanoparticles. The coordination environment and structure sensitivity of ruthenium were quantitatively investigated at atomic scale. Our findings reveal that the reduced Ru nanoparticles, approximately 7.1 nm in diameter with a Ru-Ru coordination number of 5.9, exhibit high methane formation activity and selectivity at 340 °C. The Ru-Na interfacial sites facilitate CO2 migration through a deoxygenation pathway, involving carbonate dissociation, carbonyl formation, and hydrogenation. In-situ experiments and theoretical calculations show that stable carbonyl intermediates on metallic Ru nanoparticles facilitate heterolytic C–O scission and C–H bonding, significantly lowering the energy barrier for activating stored CO2.
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The Journal of Energy Chemistry, the official publication of Science Press and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as a platform for reporting creative research and innovative applications in energy chemistry. It mainly reports on creative researches and innovative applications of chemical conversions of fossil energy, carbon dioxide, electrochemical energy and hydrogen energy, as well as the conversions of biomass and solar energy related with chemical issues to promote academic exchanges in the field of energy chemistry and to accelerate the exploration, research and development of energy science and technologies.
This journal focuses on original research papers covering various topics within energy chemistry worldwide, including:
Optimized utilization of fossil energy
Hydrogen energy
Conversion and storage of electrochemical energy
Capture, storage, and chemical conversion of carbon dioxide
Materials and nanotechnologies for energy conversion and storage
Chemistry in biomass conversion
Chemistry in the utilization of solar energy