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Hydrophobic thiol coatings to facilitate a triphasic interface for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene at gas diffusion electrodes

Hydrophobic thiol coatings to facilitate a triphasic interface for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene at gas diffusion electrodes
Hydrophobic thiol coatings to facilitate a triphasic interface for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene at gas diffusion electrodes
The electrochemical reduction of CO2 continues to see significant interest as a viable means of both producing important chemical materials and lowering carbon emissions. The primary challenge to making this process economically viable is the design of catalyst, electrode and reactor components that can selectively produce just one of the many possible CO2 reduction products. In this work, we report the use of hydrophobic 1-octadecanethiol coatings at copper coated gas diffusion electrodes to enhance the production of ethylene. This thiol coating gives a substantial increase in the production of ethylene at low current densities as well as a change in the rate determining step, as indicated by the substantial reduction in the Tafel slope. The observed changes to the CO2 reduction reaction indicate that the thiol layer provides a triphasic interface within the gas diffusion electrode catalyst layer.
0301-7249
375-387
Perry, Samuel
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Perry, Samuel, Mavrikis, Sotirios, Wegener, Moritz, Nazarovs, Pāvels, Wang, Ling and Ponce De Leon, Carlos (2021) Hydrophobic thiol coatings to facilitate a triphasic interface for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene at gas diffusion electrodes. Faraday Discussions, 230, 375-387. (doi:10.1039/D0FD00133C).

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The electrochemical reduction of CO2 continues to see significant interest as a viable means of both producing important chemical materials and lowering carbon emissions. The primary challenge to making this process economically viable is the design of catalyst, electrode and reactor components that can selectively produce just one of the many possible CO2 reduction products. In this work, we report the use of hydrophobic 1-octadecanethiol coatings at copper coated gas diffusion electrodes to enhance the production of ethylene. This thiol coating gives a substantial increase in the production of ethylene at low current densities as well as a change in the rate determining step, as indicated by the substantial reduction in the Tafel slope. The observed changes to the CO2 reduction reaction indicate that the thiol layer provides a triphasic interface within the gas diffusion electrode catalyst layer.

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Hydrophobic Thiol Coatings to Facilitate a Triphasic Interface for Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Ethylene at Gas Diffusion Electrodes - Accepted Manuscript
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 February 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 February 2021
Published date: 1 July 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work is supported as part of the CO2-based electrosynthesis of ethylene oxide (CO2EXIDE) project, which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in co-operation with the sustainable process industry through resource and energy efficiency (SPIRE) initiative under grant agreement no. 768789. Publisher Copyright: © The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Local EPrints ID: 446967
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/446967
ISSN: 0301-7249
PURE UUID: feb56208-45d1-47b3-9070-57b575deab6f
ORCID for Samuel Perry: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6263-6114
ORCID for Ling Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2894-6784
ORCID for Carlos Ponce De Leon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1907-5913

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Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 04:16

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Author: Samuel Perry ORCID iD
Author: Sotirios Mavrikis
Author: Moritz Wegener
Author: Pāvels Nazarovs
Author: Ling Wang ORCID iD

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