Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers

D Wakerley, S Lamaison, J Wicks, A Clemens… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
CO2 emissions can be recycled via low-temperature CO2 electrolysis to generate products
such as carbon monoxide, ethanol, ethylene, acetic acid, formic acid and propanol. In recent …

Gas diffusion electrodes and membranes for CO2 reduction electrolysers

EW Lees, BAW Mowbray, FGL Parlane… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is a potential means of using renewable electricity to
synthesize commodity chemicals and fuels. The CO2RR can be performed at industrially …

Boosting electrocatalytic CO2–to–ethanol production via asymmetric C–C coupling

P Wang, H Yang, C Tang, Y Wu, Y Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into multicarbon products provides possibility of
large-scale chemicals production and is therefore of significant research and commercial …

Electroreduction of CO2: Advances in the Continuous Production of Formic Acid and Formate

K Fernández-Caso, G Díaz-Sainz… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The study of the electrochemical CO2 reduction to obtain formate (HCOO–) or formic acid
(HCOOH) is receiving much attention as a promising technology. Since continuous–mode …

Close to 90% Single-Pass Conversion Efficiency for CO2 Electroreduction in an Acid-Fed Membrane Electrode Assembly

B Pan, J Fan, J Zhang, Y Luo, C Shen, C Wang… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The formation of (bi) carbonates is a pressing issue for CO2 electroreduction in neutral or
alkaline solutions. It adversely causes low single-pass conversion efficiency as a result of …

CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid

JE Huang, F Li, A Ozden, A Sedighian Rasouli… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Carbon dioxide electroreduction (CO2R) is being actively studied as a promising route to
convert carbon emissions to valuable chemicals and fuels. However, the fraction of input …

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon (C 2+) products: challenges and perspectives

B Chang, H Pang, F Raziq, S Wang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction has been developed as a promising and attractive strategy to
achieve carbon neutrality for sustainable chemical production. Among various reduction …

Modulating electric field distribution by alkali cations for CO2 electroreduction in strongly acidic medium

J Gu, S Liu, W Ni, W Ren, S Haussener, X Hu - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The reaction of carbon dioxide with hydroxide to form carbonate in near-neutral or alkaline
medium severely limits the energy and carbon efficiency of CO2 electroreduction. Here we …

Zero-Gap Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Cells: Challenges and Operational Strategies for Prevention of Salt Precipitation

M Sassenburg, M Kelly, S Subramanian… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Salt precipitation is a problem in electrochemical CO2 reduction electrolyzers that limits their
long-term durability and industrial applicability by reducing the active area, causing flooding …

Advances and Challenges for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO: From Fundamentals to Industrialization

S Jin, Z Hao, K Zhang, Z Yan, J Chen - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) provides an attractive
approach to convert renewable electricity into fuels and feedstocks in the form of chemical …