AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition
    Electronic Materials and Photonics Wednesday Sessions
       Session EM+NS-WeM

Paper EM+NS-WeM13
Electrochemical Synthesis of Nanostructured Cu and CuxO Electrodes for the Reduction of CO2 to Usable Fuels

Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 12:00 pm, Room 102A

Session: Nanoparticles for Electronics and Photonics
Presenter: Nelly Kaneza, The University of Alabama
Authors: N. Kaneza, The University of Alabama
S. Pan, The University of Alabama
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In effort to controlling carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere, the conversion of CO2 into useful products, although very challenging, has emerged as a very attractive area of research. In this work, a series of Cu based nanostructures are synthesized and characterized to demonstrate a low cost approach to reduce CO2 electrochemically to specific fuel products at low overpotential. The synthesized Cu and CuxO nanostructures are characterized with X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and their performance evaluated in terms of their activity, selectivity and stability using cyclic voltammetry (CV), gas chromatography (GC) equipped with a mass spectrometry (MS).