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Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide using Sol-gel Processed Copper Indium Sulfide (CIS) Immobilized on ITO-Coated Glass Electrode

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Sol-gel processed copper indium sulfide (CIS) films have been processed on glass and transparent indium doped tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass electrodes by a straightforward layer by layer spin coating route yielding excellent film qualities with subsequent thermal annealing. Resulting films were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and UV-vis spectroscopy. We apply these films in an electrochemical cell as a working electrode and take a view on the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to its energy richer carbon monoxide (CO) in acetonitrile solution containing 0.1 M (C4H9)4NPF6 supporting electrolyte saturated with CO2. CIS films exhibit pronounced electrochemical and photoelectrochemical activities. Concomitantly, we quantify the generation of CO, which starts to evolve at a threshold potential of −0.60 V vs normal hydrogen electrode (NHE). The calculated faradaic efficiency of the electrochemical reduction of CO2 into CO exceeds 20 (±1) % in an optimized thin-film structure.

Sol-gel processed copper indium sulfide (CIS) thin films have been processed on glass and indium doped tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass electrodes using layer by layer spin coating route yielding excellent film qualities with subsequent thermal annealing. Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical experiments performed in N2 and CO2 saturated acetonitrile solutions containing 0.1 M (C4H9)4NPF6 as an electrolyte and CIS-modified ITO as working electrode showed promising electrocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic activity for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to its energy richer carbon monoxide (CO) with faradaic efficiency of about 20 (±1) %.

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Getachew Adam would like to acknowledge the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) (flex!PV KOOP-IF 838621) for the financial support, and Ferhat Aslan is grateful to the Turkish Council of Higher Education for the financial support.

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  1. Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Str. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Getachew Adam, Ferhat Aslan, Engelbert Portenkirchner, Philipp Stadler, Markus Clark Scharber & Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

  2. Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Science, Dilla University, P.O. Box 419, Dilla, Ethiopia

    Getachew Adam

  3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science, Harran University, 63300, Sanliurfa, Turkey

    Ferhat Aslan

  4. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Innrain 52c, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Engelbert Portenkirchner

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Adam, G., Aslan, F., Portenkirchner, E. et al. Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide using Sol-gel Processed Copper Indium Sulfide (CIS) Immobilized on ITO-Coated Glass Electrode. Electrocatalysis 6, 405–413 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12678-015-0257-y

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