The invention discloses a porous
coal surface in-situ growth amine modified
copper oxide composite material as well as preparation and application thereof. The
composite material takes
coal as a
raw material and comprises the following steps: firstly, converting pulverized
coal into a porous
coal matrix through a high-temperature activation process; then jointly adding the porous coal and
copper salt into a mixed
solvent of water and
ethanol, and stirring to realize full dispersion; sequentially adding
sodium hydroxide and an amine compound into the
system, and continuously stirring to complete precursor regulation and control; then raising the temperature of the
reaction system to 60-90 DEG C, keeping the temperature and stirring for 2-4 hours to promote complete reaction, and finally performing
centrifugal separation, washing purification and
drying treatment to obtain the target amine modified
copper oxide / coal-based
composite material. According to the prepared coal-based composite material, the surface of the
coal matrix is uniformly covered with a large number of amine modified
copper oxide active components, and the structure can provide rich active sites for a
carbon dioxide reduction reaction. Based on the characteristics, the composite material shows excellent performance in a reaction for preparing
ethylene through electrocatalytic reduction of
carbon dioxide, the maximum
Faraday efficiency of
ethylene can reach 70.4%, the maximum
current density can reach 342.3 mA / cm < 2 >, and the overall electrochemical performance is remarkably superior to that of a traditional material.