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Highly efficient formic acid and carbon dioxide electro-reduction to alcohols on indium oxide electrodes

Published:2020 Issue:8 Volume:4 Page:4030-4038
ISSN:2398-4902
Container-title:Sustainable Energy & Fuels
language:en
Short-container-title:Sustainable Energy Fuels

Author:

Adegoke Kayode Adesina¹²³⁴^ORCID,Radhakrishnan Shankara Gayathri¹²³⁴^ORCID,Gray Clarissa L.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Sowa Barbara¹²³⁴,Morais Claudia⁵⁶⁷⁸,Rayess Paul⁵⁶⁷⁸,Rohwer Egmont R.¹²³⁴,Comminges Clément⁵⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Kokoh K. Boniface⁵⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Roduner Emil¹²³⁴⁹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry

2. University of Pretoria

3. Pretoria 0002

4. South Africa

5. Université de Poitiers

6. IC2MP UMR-CNRS 7285, TSA 51106

7. 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9

8. France

9. Institute of Physical Chemistry

Abstract

Co-electrolysis of formic acid and water using an indium oxide cathode catalyst yields a mixture of methanol, ethanol and iso-propanol with a Faraday efficiency up to 82.4%. The reaction of aqueous carbon dioxide occurs via a competing pathway.

Funder

National Research Foundation

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Fuel Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/SE/D0SE00623H

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