Value-Added Conversion of CO2

Political developments in the US, India and Australia suggest that coal-fired power plants are on the brink of a renaissance. Even so, the problem of carbon emissions will remain. In addition to the technologies being currently considered for CO2 management at both coal-fired and natural gas-powered thermoelectric power plants, CO2 conversion is an alternative approach to eliminating the harmful environmental effect of excessive CO2 in contributing to global warming. Electrochemical CO2 conversion (ECC) utilizes electricity to directly convert CO2 into formate, alcohol, or hydrocarbon fuels.

An intense, world-wide effort is underway in industrial, government, and academic labs to develop efficient and selective earth-abundant ECC catalysts. ECC is distinct from the photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into light hydrocarbons, which does not involve an external bias to drive the reaction. We propose to use light in addition to electrical bias (photoelectrochemical CO2 conversion) to increase the electrical and photochemical efficiencies for CO2 reduction. The ultimate goals are to develop highly efficient photoelectrochemical catalysts and a cell that converts CO2 into liquid fuels and valuable products.

Alternative fuel cell technologies for cogenerating electrical power and syngas from greenhouse gases

Jingli Luo, Bin Hua, Meng Li

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T02 P03 Poster 2017 Open House

T02 P03 ZhangS Poster 2018 Symposium

Alternative fuel cell technologies for cogenerating electrical power and syngas from greenhouse gases

Developing perovskite-based electrocatalysts for efficient energy storage and conversion

Efficient standalone solar fuels production for CO2 conversion driven by CuxO@rGO

Gas Chromatography in the Study of CO2 Conversion

High performance nanoparticle-based alloy catalysts for efficient CO2 conversion

Poster Presentation: Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2

Poster Presentation: Syngas Production via Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2 with H2O

Shape-Controlled Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 over Silver Nanostructures

Shape-engineered CO2 electroreduction over silver nanostructures

Smart Controls of Architecture and Composition toward High Performance Electrocatalysts for Energy Storage

Steering the selectivity of CuO to near unity of CO with in species for CO2 electroreduction

Tunable Syngas Production via Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2 Using Cu2O-SnO2 Z-Scheme Photocatalyst

Efficient CO2 Electroreduction on Silver Sulfide Nanowires in Ionic Liquid

A High-Performance Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite for Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis

A Rational Design of Cu2O-SnO2 Core-Shell Catalyst for Highly Selective CO2-to-CO Conversion

A facile surface chemistry approach to bifunctional excellence for perovskite electrocatalysis

Activating p-Blocking Centers in Perovskite for Efficient Water Splitting

Cost-Effective Catalysts for the Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

Hexagonal Zn nanoplates enclosed by Zn(100) and Zn(002) facets for highly selective CO2 electroreduction to CO

Hierarchically Assembling Cobalt/Nickel Carbonate Hydroxide on Copper Nitride Nanowires for Highly Efficient Water Splitting

Silver sulfide anchored on reduced graphene oxide as a high –performance catalyst for CO2 electroreduction

Tuning local carbon active sites saturability of graphitic carbon nitride to boost CO2 electroreduction towards CH4

Unravelling Structure Sensitivity in CO2 Electroreduction to Near-Unity CO on Silver Nanocubes

Value-Added Conversion of CO2