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Discovery of a Ni-Ga catalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to methanol

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Chemistry, March 2014
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Title
Discovery of a Ni-Ga catalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to methanol
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Nature Chemistry, March 2014
DOI 10.1038/nchem.1873
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Authors

Felix Studt, Irek Sharafutdinov, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Christian F. Elkjær, Jens S. Hummelshøj, Søren Dahl, Ib Chorkendorff, Jens K. Nørskov

Abstract

The use of methanol as a fuel and chemical feedstock could become very important in the development of a more sustainable society if methanol could be efficiently obtained from the direct reduction of CO2 using solar-generated hydrogen. If hydrogen production is to be decentralized, small-scale CO2 reduction devices are required that operate at low pressures. Here, we report the discovery of a Ni-Ga catalyst that reduces CO2 to methanol at ambient pressure. The catalyst was identified through a descriptor-based analysis of the process and the use of computational methods to identify Ni-Ga intermetallic compounds as stable candidates with good activity. We synthesized and tested a series of catalysts and found that Ni5Ga3 is particularly active and selective. Comparison with conventional Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts revealed the same or better methanol synthesis activity, as well as considerably lower production of CO. We suggest that this is a first step towards the development of small-scale low-pressure devices for CO2 reduction to methanol.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
Korea, Republic of 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 1102 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 330 29%
Researcher 171 15%
Student > Master 111 10%
Student > Bachelor 96 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 64 6%
Other 163 14%
Unknown 193 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 379 34%
Chemical Engineering 173 15%
Engineering 124 11%
Materials Science 95 8%
Physics and Astronomy 39 3%
Other 57 5%
Unknown 261 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 140. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2024.
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#277,307
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Outputs from Nature Chemistry
#127
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#2,366
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#4
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