title: A tunable metal-polyaniline interface for efficient carbon dioxide electro-reduction to formic acid and methanol in aqueous solution.
abstract: It is reported that metals on polyaniline (PANI) prepared by a simple method can exhibit excellent activity in the electro-reduction of CO2to HCOOH or CH3OH due to tunable properties: N atoms on PANI capture CO2through a strong Lewis acid-base interaction while Pd atoms, amongst Pd, Pt, and Cu studied, facilitate the fastest proton and electron transfers along PANI to the CO2trapped sites to give rise to the best HCOOH yield in a highly cooperative manner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk and Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Weiran
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Simantini
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0105-9771
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nayak
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Weizi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Zhiyan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xinlin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Kylie A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6444-9382
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Vincent
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk and Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Shik Chi Edman
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Tsang