DOI: 10.1039/d6cc03319a ISSN: 1359-7345

Fluorosurfactant interfacial engineering for tunable CO 2 photoelectroreduction on an Ag/p-Si cathode

Tao Zheng, Wei Li, Rui-Qi Li, Wen-Han Zhang, Luo-Han Xie, Lu-Qi Qiu, Shu-En He, Ze-Yu Zhang, Chao-Ping Liu, Qing-Xiao Tong, Jing-Xin Jian

A fluorinated imidazolium surfactant dynamically modulates the Ag/p-Si interfacial microenvironment, inducing mild Ag lattice reconstruction to switch CO 2 reduction from CO to formic acid with 59.3% selectivity after 60 h operation.