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Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation over a Metal-Free Carbon-Based Catalyst
The
hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub> into useful chemicals provides
an industrial-scale pathway for CO<sub>2</sub> recycling. The lack
of effective thermochemical catalysts currently precludes this process,
since it is challenging to identify structures that can simultaneously
exhibit high activity and selectivity for this reaction. Here, we
report, for the first time, the use of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum
dots (NGQDs) as metal-free catalysts for CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation.
The nitrogen dopants, located at the edge sites, play a key role in
inducing thermocatalytic activity in carbon nanostructures. Furthermore,
the thermocatalytic activity and selectivity of NGQDs are governed
by the doped N configurations and their corresponding defect density.
The increase of pydinic N concentration at the edge site of NGQDs
leads to lower initial reaction temperature for CO<sub>2</sub> reduction
and also higher CO<sub>2</sub> conversion and selectivity toward CH<sub>4</sub> over CO