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  • Electrochemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering

Background:

  • Electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) offers a sustainable route to convert CO2 into valuable fuels, mitigating climate change and fossil fuel dependency.
  • Significant challenges remain, including high energy barriers, slow kinetics, low conversion rates, poor product selectivity, and catalyst instability, hindering industrial application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a comprehensive review of factors influencing ECR performance.
  • To elucidate the effect-performance relationships and underlying mechanisms for enhanced ECR.
  • To identify challenges and future research directions for advancing ECR technology.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative summary and in-depth discussion of various influencing factors.
  • Analysis of intrinsic material effects (size, shape, composition, defects, interfaces, ligands).
  • Examination of structure-induced effects (confinement, strain, fields), electrolyte effects (solutes, solvents, ions), and environmental effects (ionomers, pressure, temperature, impurities, flow rates).

Main Results:

  • Intrinsic material properties significantly affect ECR activity and selectivity.
  • Structural modifications, electrolyte composition, and environmental conditions play crucial roles in optimizing ECR performance.
  • Understanding these multifaceted effects is key to improving ECR efficiency and selectivity.

Conclusions:

  • A systematic understanding of material, structural, electrolyte, and environmental effects is essential for advancing ECR.
  • Future research should leverage high-throughput calculations and in situ/operando techniques to uncover fundamental mechanisms.
  • Addressing these factors will accelerate the industrial application of ECR for sustainable fuel production.