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  • Materials Science
  • Electrochemistry
  • Catalysis

Background:

  • Electrochemical conversion of renewable energy is crucial for addressing energy and environmental challenges.
  • Current carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) catalysts suffer from high overpotentials and poor selectivity.
  • Metallenes, like molybdenene, offer structural advantages and abundant active sites for enhanced catalytic performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate molybdenene as a potential electrocatalyst for the CO2RR.
  • To investigate the CO2 activation and reaction pathways on molybdenene.
  • To assess the catalytic activity and selectivity of molybdenene for methane production.

Main Methods:

  • Employed three computational methods: fixed-charge method (FCM) without solvent effect, FCM with solvent effect, and fixed-potential method (FPM).
  • Analyzed CO2 adsorption and activation mechanisms on the molybdenene surface.
  • Calculated reaction pathways and overpotentials for CO2 reduction to methane.

Main Results:

  • Molybdenene inherently captures and activates CO2 due to surplus surface electrons, demonstrating high activity.
  • The material exhibits high selectivity towards methane (CH4) production.
  • The optimal reaction pathway shows a low overpotential of 0.68 V, outperforming Cu(211).

Conclusions:

  • Molybdenene is a promising emerging material for high-efficiency CO2RR electrocatalysis.
  • Its unique electronic structure facilitates CO2 activation and selective conversion.
  • Further theoretical and practical exploration of molybdenene for CO2RR is warranted.