Formic Acid Electro‐Synthesis by Concurrent Cathodic CO2 Reduction and Anodic CH3OH Oxidation
- 15 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Vol. 60 (6), 3148-3155
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202012066
Abstract
The electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into energy-carrying compounds or value-added chemicals is of great significance for diminishing the greenhouse effect and the efficient utilization of carbon-dioxide emissions, but it suffers from the kinetically sluggish anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and its less value-added production of O-2. We report a general strategy for efficient formic-acid synthesis by a concurrent cathodic CO2 reduction and anodic partial methanol-oxidation reaction (MOR) using mesoporous SnO2 grown on carbon cloth (mSnO(2)/CC) and CuO nanosheets grown on copper foam (CuONS/CF) as cathodic and anodic catalysts, respectively. Anodic CuONS/CF enables an extremely lowered potential of 1.47 V vs. RHE (100 mA cm(-2)), featuring a significantly enhanced electro-activity in comparison to the OER. The cathodic mSnO(2)/CC shows a rather high Faraday efficiency of 81 % at 0.7 V vs. RHE for formic-acid production from CO2. The established electrolyzer equipped with CuONS/CF at the anode and mSnO(2)/CC at the cathode requires a considerably low cell voltage of 0.93 V at 10 mA cm(-2) for formic-acid production at both sides.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51702099)
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