Low Full‐Cell Voltage Driven High‐Current‐Density Selective Paired Formate Electrosynthesis

Author(s):  
Chuqian Xiao ◽  
Ling Cheng ◽  
Yating Wang ◽  
Jinze Liu ◽  
Rongzhen Chen ◽  
...  

Anodic selective electro‐oxidation of methanol paring with cathodic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is regarded as a promising strategy to generate value added formate product. We firstly design a 3D‐assembled NiCo...

Author(s):  
Rajasekaran Elakkiya ◽  
Govindhan Maduraiveeran

Design of high-performance and Earth-abundant electrocatalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction reaction (CO2RR) into fuels and value-added chemicals offers an emergent pathway for environment and energy sustainable concerns. Herein,...


Author(s):  
Pooja Srivastava

Despite its life-threatening long term effects, the continuous increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the environment requires immediate actions to control the accelerating climate change. An appealing solution to this problem is to utilize CO2 as feedstock to generate useful chemicals, e.g., fuel, hydrocarbons, and valuable chemicals. The chemical inertness of CO2 needs considerably large energy for its conversion into useful chemicals. Therefore, CO2 reduction reaction requires an effective catalyst for its conversion into fuel (methanol, methane) and industrial chemicals (syngas, formic acid). Recently, two-dimensional layers of early transition metal carbides and nitrides, called MXene, have shown potential for catalysis due to its exposed transition metal sites, and mechanical and chemical stability at high temperatures. Herein, the author presents the MXene as a potential heterogeneous catalyst for the CO2 reduction reaction (CRR), and the future scope in this currently developing field.


Author(s):  
Ping She ◽  
Buyuan Guan ◽  
Jiyao Sheng ◽  
Yuanyuan Qi ◽  
Guanyu Qiao ◽  
...  

Photocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction (PCR) into syngas is one of the sustainable approaches for recycling CO2 into value-added chemical feedstock. However, the PCR efficiency is often limited by the...


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Juqin Zeng ◽  
Pravin Jagdale ◽  
Mirtha A. O. Lourenço ◽  
M. Amin Farkhondehfal ◽  
Daniele Sassone ◽  
...  

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to value-added chemicals and fuels has attracted worldwide interest for its potential to address various contemporary global issues such as CO2-related climate change, the earth’s carbon deficit and the energy crisis. In the development of this technology, many efforts have been focused on the design of inexpensive, eco-friendly and effective catalysts. In this work, a bismuth (Bi)-based material was simply synthesized via a scalable method and fully characterized by physical, chemical and electrochemical techniques. The catalyst material consisted of Bi/Bi2O3 nanoparticles and a biochar prevenient from the pyrolysis of brewed coffee waste. It was observed that the surface of the biochar was thoroughly decorated with nanoparticles. Due to its uniform surface, the biochar–BiOx electrode demonstrated good selectivity for CO2 reduction, showing a faradaic efficiency of more than 90% for CO and HCOOH formation in a wide potential range. Particularly, the selectivity for HCOOH reached more than 80% from −0.9 V to −1.3 V vs the reversible hydrogen electrode and peaks at 87%. Besides the selectivity, the production rate of HCOOH also achieved significant values with a maximum of 59.6 mg cm−2 h−1, implying a good application potential for biochar–BiOx material in the conversion of CO2 to HCOOH.


Author(s):  
Yingchun Zhang ◽  
Changsheng Cao ◽  
Xintao Wu ◽  
Qi-Long Zhu

Bismuth (Bi)-based nanomaterials are considered as the promising electrocatalysts for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), but it is challenging to achieve high current density and selectivity in a wide potential...


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Shao ◽  
Xiaodong Zhang

Carbon dioxide (CO2) from the excessive consumption of fossil fuels has exhibited a huge threat to the planet’s ecosystem. Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction into value-added chemicals have been regarded as a...


Author(s):  
Dui Ma ◽  
Ting Jin ◽  
Keyu Xie ◽  
Haitao Huang

Converting CO2 into value-added fuels or chemical feedstocks through electrochemical reduction is one of the several promising avenues to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and alleviate global warming. This approach...


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2952-2960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M. Nichols ◽  
Jeffrey S. Derrick ◽  
Sepand K. Nistanaki ◽  
Peter T. Smith ◽  
Christopher J. Chang

The development of catalysts for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide offers an attractive approach to transforming this greenhouse gas into value-added carbon products with sustainable energy input.


Catalysts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Mena ◽  
Iluminada Gallardo ◽  
Gonzalo Guirado

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a known greenhouse gas, and is the most important contributor to global warming. Therefore, one of the main challenges is to either eliminate or reuse it through the synthesis of value-added products, such as carboxylated derivatives. One of the most promising approaches for activating, capturing, and valorizing CO2 is the use of electrochemical techniques. In the current manuscript, we described an electrocarboxylation route for synthesizing 4-cyanobenzoic acid by valorizing CO2 through the synergistic use of electrochemical techniques (“green technology”) and ionic liquids (ILs) (“green solvents”)—two of the major entries in the general green chemistry tool kit. Moreover, the use of silver cathodes and ILs enabled the electrochemical potential applied to be reduced by more than 0.4 V. The “green” synthesis of those derivatives would provide a suitable environmentally friendly process for the design of plasticizers based on phthalate derivatives.


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