Value-­Added Conversion of CO2

Political developments in the US, India and Australia suggest that coal-fired power plants are on the brink of a renaissance. Even so, the problem of carbon emissions will remain. In addition to the technologies being currently considered for CO2 management at both coal-fired and natural gas-powered thermoelectric power plants, CO2 conversion is an alternative approach to eliminating the harmful environmental effect of excessive CO2 in contributing to global warming. Electrochemical CO2 conversion (ECC) utilizes electricity to directly convert CO2 into formate, alcohol, or hydrocarbon fuels.


An intense, world-wide effort is underway in industrial, government, and academic labs to develop efficient and selective earth-abundant ECC catalysts. ECC is distinct from the photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into light hydrocarbons, which does not involve an external bias to drive the reaction. We propose to use light in addition to electrical bias (photoelectrochemical CO2 conversion) to increase the electrical and photochemical efficiencies for CO2 reduction. The ultimate goals are to develop highly efficient photoelectrochemical catalysts and a cell that converts CO2 into liquid fuels and valuable products.

2021 Future Energy Systems Research Symposium digital poster competition

Mengnan Zhu

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Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

Pengfei Sui

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Best Poster Award

Jingli Luo

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Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

Shao-Qing Liu

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FGSR Graduate Student Online Conference Award

Pengfei Sui

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FGSR Graduate Student Online Conference Award

Shao-Qing Liu

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Future Energy Systems Opportunity Award

Chenyu Xu

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Future Energy Systems Opportunity Award

Pengfei Sui

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A High-Performance Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite for Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis

Jingli Luo, Jing Xiao, Subiao Liu

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A Rational Design of Cu2O-SnO2 Core-Shell Catalyst for Highly Selective CO2-to-CO Conversion

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Meng Li, Sheng (Shawn) Nian Zhang

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A coupled electrocatalytic system with reduced energy input for CO2 reduction and biomass valorizatio

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Shao-Qing Liu, Yicheng Wang

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A facile surface chemistry approach to bifunctional excellence for perovskite electrocatalysis

Jingli Luo, Meng Li

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Accelerating photoelectric CO2 conversion with a photothermal wavelength-dependent plasmonic local field

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Pengfei Sui

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Activating p-Blocking Centers in Perovskite for Efficient Water Splitting

Jingli Luo, Zhehui Jin, Wanying Pang, Meng Li

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Advancing cathode-gas electrode design: Overcoming CO2 gas solubility limitation in H-cells

Jingli Luo, Pengfei Sui

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Alternative fuel cell technologies for cogenerating electrical power and syngas from greenhouse gases

Jingli Luo, Meng Li

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Bi2O3 Nanosheets Grown on Carbon Nanofiber with Inherent Hydrophobicity for High- Performance CO2 Electroreduction in a Wide Potential Window

Jingli Luo, Tian Tang, Hongbo Zeng, Pengfei Sui, Shao-Qing Liu

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Boosting the stability of perovskites with exsolved nanoparticles by B-site supplement mechanism

Jingli Luo, Hongbo Zeng, Minrui Gao, Bowen Zhang, Mengnan Zhu

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Carbon dioxide valorization via formate electrosynthesis in a wide potential window

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Charge-accumulation-induced mixed photocorrosion in the Z-scheme PEC system

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Pengfei Sui

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Cost-Effective Catalysts for the Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

Sheng (Shawn) Nian Zhang

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Developing perovskite-based electrocatalysts for efficient energy storage and conversion

Jingli Luo, Meng Li

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Directionally maximizing CO selectivity to near-unity over cupric oxide with indium species for electrochemical CO2 reduction

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Jing Xiao, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Efficient standalone solar fuels production for CO2 conversion driven by CuxO@rGO

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu

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Electrochemically Dismantled Perovskite with Cooperative Catalysis for CO 2-to-Formate Conversion

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Hongbo Zeng, Minrui Gao, Chenyu Xu, Bowen Zhang, Mengnan Zhu, Pengfei Sui

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Electrochemically reconstructed perovskite with cooperative catalytic sites for CO 2-to-formate conversion

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Hongbo Zeng, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Pengfei Sui

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Electronic Delocalization of Bismuth Oxide Induced by Sulfur Doping for Efficient CO2 Electroreduction to Formate

Jingli Luo, Hongbo Zeng, Shao-Qing Liu

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Electronic Regulation of Bismuth Oxide Via Sulfur Doping for Efficient CO2 Electroreduction to Formate

Jingli Luo, Shao-Qing Liu

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Engineering strategies toward efficient CO2 electrochemical reduction to C1 products

Pengfei Sui

Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation

Enhanced CO2 Adsorption Capability for Highly Selective Electroreduction of CO2 to Formate

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Fluorine-Stabilized BO6 Octahedron of Host Perovskites for Robust Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis on Exsolved Catalysts

Jingli Luo, Hongbo Zeng, Natalia Semagina, Jing Shen, Minrui Gao, Bowen Zhang, Mengnan Zhu

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Gas Chromatography in the Study of CO2 Conversion

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao

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Hexagonal Zn nanoplates enclosed by Zn(100) and Zn(002) facets for highly selective CO2 electroreduction to CO

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Jing Xiao, Subiao Liu

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Hierarchically Assembling Cobalt/Nickel Carbonate Hydroxide on Copper Nitride Nanowires for Highly Efficient Water Splitting

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Subiao Liu, Shao-Qing Liu

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High performance nanoparticle-based alloy catalysts for efficient CO2 conversion

Jingli Luo, Meng Li

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Hot hole transfer from Ag nanoparticles to multiferroic YMn2O5 nanowires enables superior photocatalytic activity

Karthik Shankar, Pawan Kumar, Kazi Alam

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In-situ generated hydroxides realize near-unity CO selectivity for electrochemical CO2 reduction

Jingli Luo, Hongbo Zeng, Jing Xiao, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Interface-Induced Electrocatalytic Enhancement of CO2-to-Formate Conversion on Heterostructured Bismuth-Based Catalysts

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Investigation of Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO over Zn- and Cd-based Catalysts

Jing Xiao

Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation

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Investigation of highly efficient Bismuth-based electrocatalysts for CO2 electroreduction to formate

Shao-Qing Liu

Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation

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Investigations of Bismuth-and Cobalt-based Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reactions

Mengnan Zhu

Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation

Investigations of Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis on Perovskite with Exsolved Nanoparticles in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell

Bowen Zhang

Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation

Maximizing the Formate Formation of CO2 Electroreduction Via Boosting Charge Transfer Ability

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Nanosecond Laser Confined Bismuth Moiety with Tunable Structures on Graphene for Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Minrui Gao, Bowen Zhang, Mengnan Zhu, Pengfei Sui

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Optimizing Bi active sites by Ce doping for boosting formate production in a wide potential window

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Xiaolei Wang, Pengfei Sui, Yicheng Wang

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Phase Transition Engineering of Host Perovskite toward Optimal Exsolution-facilitated Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis

Jingli Luo, Hongbo Zeng, Natalia Semagina, Jing Shen, Minrui Gao, Bowen Zhang, Mengnan Zhu

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Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Meng Li, Sheng (Shawn) Nian Zhang

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Recent Progress in Cathode Material Design for CO2 Electrolysis: From Room Temperature to Elevated Temperatures

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Pengfei Sui, Yicheng Wang

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Shape-Controlled Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 over Silver Nanostructures

Jingli Luo

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Shape-engineered CO2 electroreduction over silver nanostructures

Jingli Luo

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Silver sulfide anchored on reduced graphene oxide as a high –performance catalyst for CO2 electroreduction

Jingli Luo

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Smart Controls of Architecture and Composition toward High Performance Electrocatalysts for Energy Storage

Jingli Luo, Meng Li

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Steering the Selectivity of CuO to Near-Unity of CO with Indium Species for CO2 Electroreduction

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Steering the selectivity of CuO to near unity of CO with in species for CO2 electroreduction

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu, Jing Xiao, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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Switchable CO2 Electroreduction Induced by the Bismuth Moiety with Tunable Local Structures on Graphene

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Bowen Zhang, Mengnan Zhu

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Syngas Production via Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2 with H2O

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Meng Li, Sheng (Shawn) Nian Zhang

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Tunable Syngas Production via Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2 Using Cu2O-SnO2 Z-Scheme Photocatalyst

Karthik Shankar, Jingli Luo, Steven Bergens, Meng Li, Sheng (Shawn) Nian Zhang

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Tuning local carbon active sites saturability of graphitic carbon nitride to boost CO2 electroreduction towards CH4

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Jing Xiao

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Understanding the light-induced oxygen vacancy in the photochemical conversion

Jingli Luo, Chenyu Xu

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Unlocking nanotubular bismuth oxyiodide toward carbon-neutral electrosynthesis

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Chenyu Xu, Mengnan Zhu, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui, Yicheng Wang

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Unravelling Structure Sensitivity in CO2 Electroreduction to Near-Unity CO on Silver Nanocubes

Jingli Luo, Jing Xiao, Subiao Liu

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Unveiling phase-selective α-and β-Bi2O3-derived electrocatalysts for CO2 electroreduction

Jingli Luo, Minrui Gao, Subiao Liu, Pengfei Sui

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