Research
Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm
Higgins, D., Hahn, C., Xiang, C., Jaramillo, T., Weber, A. Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm. ACS Energy Letters, 4, 317-324, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b02035 (2018).
Scientific Achievement
In this paper, JCAP researchers critically examine progress in incorporating electrochemical CO2 reduction catalysts into practical device architectures that operate using vapor-phase CO2 reactants.
Significance & impact
Vapor-fed reactors represent new paradigms for unprecedented control of local reaction conditions, and researchers provide perspective on the challenges and opportunities for generating fundamental knowledge and achieving technological progress.
Contact: jaramillo@stanford.edu, azweber@lbl.gov
Reprinted from Higgins, D., Hahn, C., Xiang, C., Jaramillo, T., Weber, A. Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm. ACS Energy Letters, 4, 317-324, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b02035 (2018).
Schematic of a three-dimensional GDE depicting the multiple length scales where phenomena are occurring during electrochemical CO2R.
Reprinted from Higgins, D., Hahn, C., Xiang, C., Jaramillo, T., Weber, A. Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm. ACS Energy Letters, 4, 317-324, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b02035 (2018).
State-of-the-art energy efficiencies versus partial current densities to ethylene, carbon monoxide, formate, and hydrogen.