Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand
2. Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS) Institute of Physical Chemistry Johannes Kepler University Linz 4040 Linz Austria
Abstract
AbstractThis study focused on preparation of stable polymer films of NiII‐ and CoII‐tetraaminophthalocyanines, p‐NiTAPc and p‐CoTAPc, respectively, for highly efficient heterogeneous electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction in a flow electrolysis cell. Major development represented in this work was fabrication of p‐NiTAPc and p‐CoTAPc films via electropolymerization of their corresponding monomers on carbon‐based substrates without using binder or conducting additive materials to obtain efficient gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for scalable, productive and selective CO2‐to‐CO conversion. The target polymers were characterized by UV‐visible spectrophotometry, attenuated total reflection‐Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. According to controlled potential electrolysis and gas chromatography, p‐NiTAPc‐catalyzed CO2 reduction at −0.99 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) gave 953 mL of CO in a period of 16 hours with current density and Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 109±1 mA ⋅ cm−2 and 99±2 %, respectively. A p‐CoTAPc‐modified GDE exhibited superior catalytic performance to the case of p‐NiTAPc in terms of catalyst stability and CO productivity by performing the continuous CO2 reduction at the potential of −1.10 V vs. RHE for up to 41 hours and affording almost 3 times higher amount of CO with the current density of 161±5 mA⋅cm–2 and 95±2 % FE.
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